What NOT to do.... just a bit of fun

[Stephen]

Was thinking student? You may be right a room full of signers? Lol

[vajo]

Nice hamon indeed. Congrats Brian.

 

[Brian]

Will take more pics tomorrow. Got it under the right light, and the hamon is really popping, plus I can clearly see the hada too. I think the same is real too, just had minimal handling since the end of the war

[Stephen]

With some alcohol or acetone and uchikoing your really going to be happy!!

Nice eye on right bits nice pick up !!

[vajo]

Brian don't worry about the same. If it is celluloid that isn't bad. I like that celluloid same very much! Don't get on the wrong side to say its "plastic" 😄 I don't think it was a cheap choose to order with celluloid. 

[16k]

Nice find Brian, and congrats! 

 

Not surprising about the signature. A guy signing for a whole bunch of others see,s to have been frequent for Showato during wartime. What you have here is probably his real signature on a genuine Gendaito. Once again, congrats for having a good eye!

[Bruce Pennington]

  On 10/6/2020 at 5:55 PM, Brian said:

Did they have people signing for them for arsenal swords and maybe sign themselves for Gendaito?

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I have heard that often, but don't know a source for it.

[PNSSHOGUN]

Great score, unexpected smith as well.

[george trotter]

Brian, looks like you have found an Amachi gendaito.

There were 3 brothers?:

eldest? Masatsune

middle? Kanenaga

youngest? or son? Yoshimasa.

All made Seki showato and these are seen with nakirishi mei signatures, but I seem to remember reading that all were trained gendaitosho and also made gendaito, or put it this way...I definitely remember seeing each smith's swords with nakirishimei by Seki gunto cutter but ALSO self cut high quality mei...like yours.

I had one by in the 1980s (when Steven was a boy) by Kanenaga so did some research (not much).

Here is a page of that research with the 3 mei. At least it is a start...I think you will find heaps of info/pics/mei etc with on-line search etc.

 

Oh, edit to add...two of the Amachi swords I had in hand had identical mounts to yours...probably had an "in house" mounter.

[Dave R]

  On 10/6/2020 at 5:29 PM, Brian said:

Nagasa only about 623mm....but it has a LONG nakago. 245mm. Odd.

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Not odd at all. the long nakago, (full length of the tsuka) is a feature of blades of this era.

[Surfson]

Well done Brian!  I expect to see more sword gambles from you now!

[Brian]

Just a few more pics in better light.
Also some pics of the tassel and (what looks like a sort of paracord?) sarute for @Bruce Pennington
I bet it has been there since the war. Tassel is in great condition.
Till the next sword comes along...thanks all.

[vajo]

Gendai-to Brian. That was a real deal. Hamon looks beautifull. Do some stitches into the sarute. It looks like it could crack. I would spare the tassel seperate. 

[PNSSHOGUN]

Good original all brown tassel.

[Bruce Pennington]

Quite a beauty, Brian! The sarute is the standard cloth type.  Just faded and worn.

[george trotter]

Very nice Brian!

You did a nice job of cleaning....Seems like you removed every bit of "gunk" on it....was it just an alcohol rub-down with paper/cloth, then a drying off with paper/cloth, then a couple of uchikos and wipe-offs with paper/cloth?

Turned out very nice.

Regards,

[Dave R]

"Just for fun" have you tried a magnet on the tosugu? I got a gunto koshira recently, original and from Japan, and the fuchi, kabutogane and menuk of standard patterni are plated iron! Late war, substitution of material, and I wonder how common this would be.