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Kantei Quiz, Up For The Challenge ?

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Hi Guys, figured this was an interesting one to take a jab at. It may not be your taste being Kogarasu-maru style but there are a couple interesting features on this piece that make it interesting. What period and which school/ or more precisely which smith could have made this one? Nakago is Mumei. Much of the reason for this kantei is a feature I'd like to point out which I'll do so once we tally up a few opinions.

Nagasa is 66cm with a Sori of 1.2 cm

Good luck :)

 

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Lee Bray Mentor

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I've always wondered how they do noto with a blade like that.

 

Ken

Carefully...

 

Kiyondo. Gut feel based on the fine jigane and control in the hamon.

Gorgeous sword.

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The sunagashi reminds me very much of a Taneaki (student of Naotane) blade I have. I'm not sure about the three mekugi ana for such a recent blade though - implying older? Lovely blade regardless of who made it!

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Some very good opinions.... Thank you all who participated so far.

All bets in? I'll give it a tad longer for whoever else might want to add their 2 cents.

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Prewar70 Proficient

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Ok so I feel like playing even though my knowledge is very limited but how better to learn. I can't guess as to school or smith so I will stick to period and what I am seeing. Hamon seems more recent shin Shinto. Jigane/jihada not the best pics but doesn't have a Koto feel to me. Nakago besides being beautiful, looks old and suriage, with several mekugiana, however, description says its ubu. So I am going with shin Shinto period.

Alex A Grand Master

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Difficult, if the blade is unaltered then someone did one hell of a job as a utsushi. (but maybe they did?)

 

The steel patina changes along the nakago, more pitted towards the end, even in the bo-hi.

 

The way the bo-hi is cut off.

 

I'm finding it difficult to believe the nakago is unaltered, leaning towards suriage.

 

As for school, struggling, but best I can come up with is Gassan Sadakazu, but may well be a bit older, I think :dunno:

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Sneaky of you Allan :)

Some of you hit the nail on the head, answer is Gassan Sadakazu, jidai is Meiji period. Congrats to Jean and Alex :thumbsup:

Both John's came very close, along with Tom.

Barry before submission to the NTHK-NPO Hayama Enshin was my my guess since he was known to make a few of these and well balanced in the various traditions, but I also thought it could have been a late shin-shinto work like some of you guessed (possibly the Yokoyama school).

Like some of you the Nakago threw me off, the Jigane was certainly indication of a late Edo Utushi and the 3 Mekugi-ana looks like it could have been re-mounted. The Mekugi-ana closest to the Machi appears to have been double punched or elongated but I think the koshirae that was commissioned for this piece (which is absolutely stunning btw) is original to when the blade was made so a lot of time went into making that nakago look like it was older.

Thank you to everybody that participated, sorry if I left anyone out. you can see a few pics of the complete set.

 

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Guest Rayhan

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Thanks Nick! I was waiting anxiously for the answer:) Atari to those who got it and a great learning experience!

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