Sue Sa - Wonderful Example

[Vermithrax16]

Danny M at Nihonto Craft has a spectacular Sue Sa sword up for sale:

http://www.nihontocraft.com/Sue_Sa_Katana.html

 

A friend of mine held this sword when it was on exhibit a while ago. He was blown away. 

[J Reid]

Beautiful sword.. interesting that the gakumei is unreadable.. to me it looks like it was professionally erased. Regardless, very attractive sword.

[TheGermanBastard]

Beautifull piece!

[tokashikibob]

Thumbs up!

[Greg F]

A real beauty, thanks for sharing Jeremiah.

 

Greg

[Ken-Hawaii]

Professionally erased some time ago, too. Otherwise, why would anyone punch an ana through it?

[Surfson]

His explanation of how he attributed it to Nambokucho based on the TH papers is noteworthy. 

[Vermithrax16]

Professionally erased some time ago, too. Otherwise, why would anyone punch an ana through it?

Seen ana holes punched through family emblems and crests, everyone told me "if it meant good in a fight, who cares". 

[Vermithrax16]

I evaluate blades on what they are, I felt this one was worth a look. 

[Surfson]

It's a beauty Jeremiah.  I'm sure you like the hada, as do I.  I also like the kissaki  and the nakago.  Cool.

[Vermithrax16]

It's a beauty Jeremiah.  I'm sure you like the hada, as do I.  I also like the kissaki  and the nakago.  Cool.

 

Sorry if I came off rough, this is a splendid sword.

 

Interesting observation on the erased (possibly) mei patch. From what I have seen, it's probably a long story, but I can imagine a direct reason why that is.

[Surfson]

Do tell!   It looks like there is no mei, but I assume there is one that is hard to see.   Otherwise, there would be no point in making the gakumei.  What do you think is the explanation?  

[Ray Singer]

Gakumei may have been added using the mei of a completely different sword as an act of deception. Was judged gimei and the mei was removed. I have seen several Gakumei in which the mei was clearly removed later.

[Surfson]

That is a plausible explanation Ray, and does make more sense if there is actually not a visible mei with the sword in hand.  

[Jean]

Years ago, perhaps a decade, on Aoi Art there was a papered hasebe daito with a gakumei, the mei had been erased....Masamune? Yukimitsu?

[Vermithrax16]

Gakumei may have been added using the mei of a completely different sword as an act of deception. Was judged gimei and the mei was removed. I have seen several Gakumei in which the mei was clearly removed later.

Occam's Razor says this is most likely and what I was thinking.

[Ray Singer]

A gakumei which was judged gimei and may (or may not) have since had its mei removed.

 

http://www.legacyswords.com/fs_ant_daito45.htm