TheGermanBastard Posted January 27, 2018 Report Posted January 27, 2018 Hello fellow members, I am looking for some cheap oppinions on this little Tanto Mei please. I had read it as Kuniyuki ... should be a Koto piece ... unfortunately having lost much meat. Not sure if it will take another polish. Any oppinions on who you thik the smith could be is appreciated. Yes, I know hard to tell anything without seeing it in polish. Thank you, Luis Quote
TheGermanBastard Posted January 27, 2018 Author Report Posted January 27, 2018 Thank you Ray ... My enviornment suffers from my dyslexia ... but I am at a total loss when it comes to Kanji ... hiorrible Quote
TheGermanBastard Posted January 27, 2018 Author Report Posted January 27, 2018 hm ... most of them are rather early and above average rated ... so it is likely crap. Quote
TheGermanBastard Posted January 27, 2018 Author Report Posted January 27, 2018 Thank you also Jean. Do you have any cheap oppinion on which one this one might try to be? Quote
John A Stuart Posted January 27, 2018 Report Posted January 27, 2018 I am inwardly smiling at 'cheap opinion'. Free is cheap indeed. Haaaa! John Quote
TheGermanBastard Posted January 27, 2018 Author Report Posted January 27, 2018 I take it for what it is worth Quote
Peter Bleed Posted January 27, 2018 Report Posted January 27, 2018 Yep. for what its worth . . . . it is Kunitoshi - - and its gimei Peter Quote
TheGermanBastard Posted January 27, 2018 Author Report Posted January 27, 2018 Hello Peter, which Kunitoshi do you think it tries to be? I can rule out the Rai Kunitoshi but I am locking Oshigata for most others Quote
Jean Posted January 27, 2018 Report Posted January 27, 2018 Niji kunitoshi (Rai school - Yamashiro) Late Kamakura, saijosmith Quote
TheGermanBastard Posted January 28, 2018 Author Report Posted January 28, 2018 hello Jean, thank you for your thoughts. I was hoping it could be one of the lower ranked but old Bizen guys. Howeer hower hope is the greatest falsifier of truth. The Toshi Kanji is way off ... this makes me wonder if it wants to be Rai Kunitoshi also since we do not have the Rai Kanji in place. The last blade signed by a Rai guy that I had bought turned out to be Ko-Mihara Aritoshi after the Gimei was removed. This tanto seems to have seen quite a fe polishes. I will see what is left of it and if it is a pre Muromachi piece when it arrives. Quote
Ray Singer Posted January 28, 2018 Report Posted January 28, 2018 At a glance, the tanto has the appearance of a polished down Sue-Bizen (late Muromachi). Does anything remain of the hamon? Quote
TheGermanBastard Posted January 28, 2018 Author Report Posted January 28, 2018 Hello Ray, I can't tell yet. I do not have it in Hand yet. If it is healthy enough to take another polish and pre Muromachi I will take a shot at polishing. If it is "only" Murmoachi the condition would be to bad too keep it in my hubme oppinion. Quote
Jean Posted January 28, 2018 Report Posted January 28, 2018 Kunitoshi: two signatures: 1- niji mei Kunitoshi - two kanji 2- sanji mei: Rai Kunitoshi - 3 kanji Nowadays experts tend to say that they are the same person, niji Kunitoshi mei being his early years as smith with a wild hamon, then sanji Kunitoshi (mei: Rai Kunitoshi) later where his work is very classical Rai, calm suguha. The most impressive Rai sword I have seen was displaid at a DTI several years ago by Rai Kuniyuki. The wildest hamon I have seen in a Rai school, O midare with plenty of ashi....sigh.... Quote
TheGermanBastard Posted January 28, 2018 Author Report Posted January 28, 2018 it is most probably junk. i bought it Quote
TheGermanBastard Posted January 28, 2018 Author Report Posted January 28, 2018 thank you ray, peter and jean for taking your time. i will share more details when i have it in hand Quote
martin hornak Posted February 20, 2018 Report Posted February 20, 2018 Hallo, opinion is the mei engrawing is young and not comparing original old signature in shape in size and location on nakago. but common things in feudal times making fakes sign,. Quote
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