New Nihonto

[Ooitame]

Nihonto is finaly here. 25-3/4in. nagasa, 9/10in. sori, 8-1/4in nakagao. My hats off to all of you here who produce such wonderful photography. As I found out, it is not easy. This sword is in a war time polish, which is still nice for the period. It is in my opinion tightly grained, and I was suprised to see the hada is mainly masame and some itame, and choji hamon. Hopefully, the not so great camera phone pictures translate well here.

[Ooitame]

A few more...

[Ooitame]

Some more...

[Ooitame]

Last ones.

[Vermithrax16]

Congrats on the new buy Eric. Can you share some more details?

 

YES, getting good pictures seems near impossible most of the time. Not sure how Ray does it so consistent.

[Stephen]

Nice Nagamitsu you have hada down nicely to catch hamon try shoot down the blade.

[vajo]

The nagamitsu hada is unique under the gendaito. It's allways nice to look at. Congratulation for your new sword.

[Ooitame]

Congrats on the new buy Eric. Can you share some more details?

 

YES, getting good pictures seems near impossible most of the time. Not sure how Ray does it so consistent.

I don't have any more measurements as I don't have a caliper just yet; or a scale. But I can say it is wide, thick, heavy, well built, and has a pretty good balance.

 

Maybe a year into my nihonto hunt, and just after a sword I was going to buy did not pass shinsa, my brother just happened to bump into a family friend from when we were living in Japan. Turns out he was gifted this sword while in Japan, and was looking to sell it. Even though this era is not what I was looking for, the price of the sword was fair, in good condition, and can be accounted for its last 25+ years. The circumstances all seemed to line up and it felt like I should buy the sword... so I did.

 

Thanks Stephen, will give that a try and see if I cant put up some more pics.

 

Thanks Chris, agreed, the more I study this blade there is something new to enjoy.

[Ooitame]

I gave the hamon pictures a go.

[Stephen]

Well done!

[Ooitame]

Very happy to report that as of today, this sword will be receiving NTHK Kanteisho origami. Thanks to expert trained eyes, edit to my first post about the hamon, it is ko-gunome.

[raynor]

Congratulations!

 

Are you attending the Tampa shinsa?

 

I am awaiting results as well through the mail in service, I recon the results are out in a week or so maybe faster?

[Ooitame]

Hi Omar, I attended in person. If your sword passes you get a copy of the worksheet that day. I ran into a few people handling swords for mail in services. They had many baldes and paper work to go thru, so you should know in a week or so.

[Swords]

Just curious how much did you pay and would u considering ever selling it?

 

 Steve 

[Rich S]

Eric

 

Nice sword and koshirae. Looks nearly identical to one of mine. Congrats on the papers.

Rich

[Ooitame]

Hi Steve, I do not plan on selling it for many years hopefully. 

 

Thanks Rich, that Shinsa was a very tough one for getting Kantiesho. In addition, I am honored that it was appraised/kantied by the late Mr. Yoshikawa Eiichi.