Bruce Pennington Posted December 8, 2022 Author Report Posted December 8, 2022 Don't think I've ever seen a kyu with horimono before, until @mdiddy posted this one HERE: 1 Quote
mdiddy Posted December 8, 2022 Report Posted December 8, 2022 32 minutes ago, Bruce Pennington said: Don't think I've ever seen a kyu with horimono before Just a head's up - that habaki belongs to a different sword 1 Quote
DTM72 Posted December 8, 2022 Report Posted December 8, 2022 A Gassan blade in Kyu mounts with Gassan horimono? 1 Quote
DTM72 Posted March 7, 2023 Report Posted March 7, 2023 In this entire thread, I have only seen 1 cavalry officers kyu. I am guessing these are as rare as the naval officers kyu's (with real blades). Asking because I just picked-up a company grade 1886 pattern cavalry sword with kamon on the backstrap. Added bonus is the fittings from Suya are in excellent condition. Blade is in excellent condition and looks to be a Murata/zohito and is mumei. Anyone have any additional information on the cavalry kyugunto's and their rarity compared to other kyugunto? 2 2 1 Quote
Bruce Pennington Posted March 7, 2023 Author Report Posted March 7, 2023 That's quite a find, Dan, and quite gorgeous. Could be the first I've ever seen. I think there's been a couple NCO cavalry swords bantered about NMB, but not Officer Kyu. Quote
DTM72 Posted March 8, 2023 Report Posted March 8, 2023 1 hour ago, Bruce Pennington said: That's quite a find, Dan, and quite gorgeous. Could be the first I've ever seen. I think there's been a couple NCO cavalry swords bantered about NMB, but not Officer Kyu. There was one in this same thread that was actually a field officer cavalry version. <— quite nice! It was actually posted by you on page 3 of this thread, 5 th post down. Russian collector from guns.ru. Quote
Bruce Pennington Posted March 8, 2023 Author Report Posted March 8, 2023 2 hours ago, DTM72 said: posted by you on page 3 of this thread, 5 th post down. Russian collector from guns.ru. Ooo, good eye! I missed the hand guard pattern. Quote
Bruce Pennington Posted August 21, 2023 Author Report Posted August 21, 2023 Adding a nice Kyu waki, posted by @Volker62 here: Kyu gunto with antique waki blade from Plimpton collection 1 1 Quote
Volker62 Posted August 21, 2023 Report Posted August 21, 2023 Plimton collection wakzashi... one kanji on the swords nakago has left "Echi" Quote
Volker62 Posted September 17, 2023 Report Posted September 17, 2023 still found this rare early Kyu Gunto version in this case with an old treasured familiy blade by Omino kami fujiwara Tsuguhira, with NBTHK toku betsu Hozon papers 3 Quote
Bruce Pennington Posted September 17, 2023 Author Report Posted September 17, 2023 The ones with the locking latch are pretty rare, nice one @Volker62! On another note, have we already seen that Rinji with the brown tassel? Quote
Volker62 Posted September 17, 2023 Report Posted September 17, 2023 uploading error Bruce.. failing eye sight, without glases Quote
Bruce Pennington Posted September 17, 2023 Author Report Posted September 17, 2023 1 hour ago, Volker62 said: uploading error Bruce.. Seriously, though, I checked my chart and don’t have a Sword from you with a brown tassel. So if that’s yours, and if the tassel is brown, I would appreciate some more photos. Do me a favor, and post your pictures here: Quote
Volker62 Posted September 19, 2023 Report Posted September 19, 2023 Bruce its my fantastic sword made by Okishiba Masakuni, which comes from an prominent collection here in Germany. Dr. H.F. Jung head of Bayer Leverkusen in Tokyo since 1962 Quote
Bruce Pennington Posted September 19, 2023 Author Report Posted September 19, 2023 9 hours ago, Volker62 said: its my fantastic sword made by Okishiba Masakuni, Thanks! And just to confirm, it has the all-brown tassel? And is it dated? Quote
Bruce Pennington Posted January 23 Author Report Posted January 23 One of our guys gave me a link to this. It had been at auction, Amero Auctions, and he hoped to get it, but was outbid. Hoping someone here won it and will post photos, including the serial number! A 1938 SMR Mantetsu in Navy Kyugunto fittings!!! 6 Quote
DTM72 Posted February 2 Report Posted February 2 After having this on display at the Las Vegas show, I was asked to post here. Took me a while to get the drool cleaned-up that @Brian left on it. lol Beautiful 1883 pattern Navy Kyu-gunto with signed and papered katana from Bungo ju Fujiwara Sadayuki earning 76 points at the Chicago NTHK-NPO shinsa. Most interesting feature is the tobiyaki found just above the shinogi line, with one or two on each side of the blade that are in both the shinogi and the ji areas. With the shinogi being burnished, it has been impossible for me to catch the tobiyaki in the photos. The shagreen (sharkskin) saya is completly unblemished and in museum condition, as well as the fittings. Hope you like! 2 1 Quote
Brian Posted February 4 Report Posted February 4 It is a stunning piece, and one that I would be very proud to own. Has lots going for it. 1 Quote
Stephen Posted February 4 Report Posted February 4 Basically my holy grail or the one before. Something I'll never reach. Book em Dan O 1 Quote
ChrisW Posted February 4 Report Posted February 4 @Bruce Pennington@Stephen@Brian Well, I finally got around to taking some quick photos. I've photographed them as a pair, but they're two very different blades. Both in army mounts though. The wakizashi is a 21.5" blade signed simply "Nobuyoshi" and could be any of the late 1500 to middle 1600's Nobuyoshi. It has a very active choji hamon with a lot of tobiyaki. Dan from my ITK group likes to call it "florid choji". I like to think its almost like paint or blood dripping. Nothing special about the mounts other than the condition being very good with much of the gold plate/wash present. Good portions of the chrome on the saya is gone, but the condition is stable. The longer blade is a 25.75" cut-down tachi which I believe is from the Late Kamakura era. It appears to have been around the 30 to 31" mark originally. The nakago has three mekugi-ana and retains about 1.5" of the original length of the nakago. The hamon is a very narrow razor-thin suguha and is very difficult to capture. The mounts have a kamon on the backstrap. I believe it is a Tokugawa crest. It is missing one seppa unfortunately. But the chrome plating is near immaculate on the saya. That's about all I know of the two. I'd welcome opinions on school of the longer blade as I've no idea without visible hada and a barely visible hamon through the clouding. Edit: apologies for the photos as usual. Working with a phone camera and then an image compressor means much is lost. They'll both be with me at the Chicago show this year again too. 4 3 Quote
Bruce Pennington Posted Thursday at 03:24 PM Author Report Posted Thursday at 03:24 PM On 8/31/2022 at 7:14 AM, Bruce Pennington said: Army styled kyugunto, but with Navy anchor on the backstrap and drag. I'm puzzled by the Army company grade tassel. It's wrapped tightly, and wear indicates it has been there for a long time. Dawson (working from memory) mentioned that there was another one of these out there. I've found it on this Russian Origami-token.ru site. Same anchor on the backstrap, no leather cover, and no anchor on the drag. Blade is slightly different, in the shape of the nakago jiri, and the start point of the bohi. Oh, and the rayskin is black on this one vs the white on the one I have. Mine: 2 1 Quote
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