Showa Stamped Blade From Japan?

[vajo]

Take a look on that very nice Kanemoto blade.

 

http://www.ebay.de/itm/HJ-58-KATANA-KANEMOTO-BladeLength-63-6cm-25inch-/322900963897

 

If it is a real nihonto why it is showa stamped? And why is a registered showa blade in Japan?

 

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/GyoAAOSwsFpaF7l5/s-l1600.jpg

 

Could that be a gendai blade?

 

[Brian]

It's a Showato. One of those that slipped through the registration cracks. Either as a favour or just through lack of proper examination.
No biggie. We've seen a few lately.

[Geraint]

And for Kanemoto read Kanenao, the seller confirms this at the very bottom of the listing.  Perhaps the Kanemoto in inverted commas is meant to suggest an association or just that it is Seki school.

Actually, it looks much more like Asano Kanesane so have a look here, https://www.japaneseswordindex.com/kanezane.htm

 

All the best.

[vajo]

This is the second showa-to blade i've seen in a auction in Japan. The other was a NCO sword on yahoo someone will remember the price was around $3000. Maybe Japan changed the law?

[Geraint]

If they have then I have not heard about it and perhaps some of our members resident in Japan can enlighten us.   I have noted that Aoi sometimes get around the regs by saying that a blade is a metal tsunagi, I'm sure that some others simply do not know or bother about the rules.  I have seen quite a lot of rule bending here in the UK when it comes to selling swords, I suppose that the same is possible in Japan.

 

All the best.

[Brian]

No rules have changed. It is just the usual thing that happens anywhere in the world. If there is a rule, it will be broken.

[Guido]

The law wasn’t changed, it’s just that some toroku-shinsa teams don’t know it fully. So far all licenseses for shōwatō I’ve seen were issued by provincial Boards of Education – like in this case, it’s from Hyōgo prefecture.

 

BTW, IMO the sword in question shows clear signs of being oil quenched; it has a pencil-thin (kind of nioi’ish) habuchi, and the typical ragged peaks.

[vajo]

It is a showa stamped blade and it is registered in Japan.

I'm German i can't belive that a government make a failure ????