tokashikibob Posted October 18, 2017 Report Posted October 18, 2017 Fellas, Enjoyed reading the Fuyuhiro blade Rob recently won at auction. Link below. It made me think about this blade I have that has similar characteristics, condition and questions in my mind about era, school, horimono / atobori. As Ray mentioned in the other post Nakahara's Fundamental's is a pessimistic book when you get these multi character pieces. I did hit the books a bit with it but could not find my notes, but don't remember coming to a educated guess. However it seems to have been a nice sword back in it's heyday. Hoso-suguha looks good all the way, weird namban tsuba too. The guy who did the last polish did not do his best work... Best regards, Bob http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/23663-katana-for-auction-fuyuhiro-saku-w-shaomi-tsuba/page-3 1 Quote
Geraint Posted October 18, 2017 Report Posted October 18, 2017 Dear Bob. I like it! One to have polished I would think. The weird Namban is interesting, if you have not seen it there's an interesting read here, http://mandarinmansion.com/nanban-tsuba The cupped shape is reminiscent of Chinese guards such as this one, https://nihontoantiques.com/project/chinese-sword-nji-111/ (Hope the links work this time.) All the best. Quote
Bazza Posted October 18, 2017 Report Posted October 18, 2017 The horimono reminds me of the KINAI BORI of Echizen Yasutsugu. BaZZa. Quote
ROKUJURO Posted October 18, 2017 Report Posted October 18, 2017 Bob,A very interesting blade and nice KOSHIRAE!Looking at the NAKAGO, it is perhaps SHIN SHINTO. Looking at the SUGATA and other features, it might be a KOTO UTSUSHI (TEGAI?). Quote
tokashikibob Posted October 18, 2017 Author Report Posted October 18, 2017 Gents, Thank you for the namban links, Cool! Bazza, I agree it sure looks Yasutsugu Eichizen chiselwork. Initially, I thought the horimono work older, but it is not too worn down as much as most koto are. Jean, The sugata looks older but I agree that Nakago does not look old enough. Too bad I cannot see much to describe anything on the hada, or hataraki if any in the hamon. Also, it looks flaw free too, (Utsushi = good tamahagane/forging), Here are a couple pics of a old Oei Nobukuni blade before and after. Rusty blades need love too... sometimes.. I'm sure this will be polished by someone if not myself in the future. Best regards, Bob Quote
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