What Am I Looking At? Chrysanthemum Stamp

[lanceoa]

Noob here, just found this forum and like the content already. I have no idea what I’m looking at. Approx wakizashi length , i’ll measure it when I get home. Thx

[Ray Singer]

Can we see the entire nakago? What can be seen may be 'kami Tachibana Yasu'. A likely candidate may be [Kikumon] Bitchu (no) kami Tachibana Yasuhiro. 

 

備中 守橘康 廣

 

[lanceoa]

I didn’t get any good pictures laid out (toddlers in my house), I’ll do that this afternoon. Thx for the ref- def some resemblance

[Tanto54]

Dear Lance,

 

It looks like a good blade - congratulations.  Please take a look at the care and handling instructions on this website.  Touching the blade with your bare hands or using any kind of abrasive or many common "cleaners" can ruin your sword.  Some of the care instructions from this website are reproduced below:

 

 

The starting point to preserving a blade is to pick up some light machine oil, the type sold for sewing machines, or some traditional oil for Japanese blades which is called choji oil. This refers to clove oil, but is actually a light machine oil mixed with a tiny bit of clove oil just for the pleasant traditional scent. Do not use pure pharmaceutical clove oil. Many other oils such as gun oils and vegetable oil can gum up, leave stains or have other adverse effects over time.

A few drops on a clean and soft cloth, lightly wiped over the blade when it has been handled should do the trick. In climates that are less humid, cleaning does not have to be done very frequently. Less is more when it comes to Nihonto. Uchiko powder and commercial sword cleaning balls containing powdered abrasive should generally be reserved for blades heavily out of polish, and even then very sparingly. They can be used occasionally on Nihonto to remove old oil, but bear in mind that they are abrasive and will dull a new polish over time. Removal of old oil can easily be done with pure alcohol, otherwise known as dehydrated alcohol or waterless ethanol. This is 99.5% pure alcohol.

Be careful when cleaning the area close to the tang - try to avoid moving the tissue up from the nakago - the tissue might pick up rust particles from the nakago (tang) and scratch the blade. Move the tissue in one direction - from the tang to the tip. Never ever move your hand up and down - you could cut yourself badly some day (and blood will stain a blade.)
Scented or otherwise hampered tissue paper is be avoided. Normal tissue is fine and a lot easier to get a hold of. The best cloth to use is micro fiber cloth, sold for photographic lenses. Microdear is known as the best of these brands and can be found online. These can be washed in water when they get too dirty.
 

[SteveM]

or ？？守播磨？？

something no-kami Harima something

 

Harima is a location name. Kami is an official title, usually translated as "governor", only its just a title. It isn't meant to infer political authority.

Harima-no-kami  (Governor/Lord of Harima) is a common thing to find on swords, but the opposite construction is weird, so I could be off target with this one. 

[Ray Singer]

That was my thought before bidding for Yasuhiro, however my reasoning was that Harima would typically appear before '(no) kami' and I was not able to find a smith whose mei contained Harima and additionally used that kiku-mon.

[Vermithrax16]

I thought the Yasuhiro mei would be on the omote side and the kiku mon would be on the ura side.

[lanceoa]

Thanks for attempting this riddle. Here are a few more pics

[Ray Singer]

That is not always the case. Please see attached for a couple of reference examples.

 

I thought the Yasuhiro mei would be on the omote side and the kiku mon would be on the ura side.

[Vermithrax16]

As a huge fan of Ishido school, will take this offline, but what gen Yasuhiro is that? Have seen some mishina blades with kiku mon on the omote. Interesting.

[Ray Singer]

Uncertain of the generation. These were both offered by a Japan dealer.

[lanceoa]

Thanks Sir Ray - really enjoying following the Tachibana Yasuhiro lead. Hopefully headed to the local sword club to share and learn

[Jacques]

If shoshin, not the shodai according examples shared by Ray (specially the ji 守)

[lanceoa]

If shoshin, not the shodai according examples shared by Ray (specially the ji 守)

I’m sorry - come again?

[TheGermanBastard]

jacques meant that it is not a good match for the 1st generation.

[lanceoa]

jacques meant that it is not a good match for the 1st generation.

thanks for the clarification Luis

[Jacques]

Humm    

 

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