Gassan Sadakatsu with Imperial ties

[Bryce]

G'day Guys,

I have a database of 53 of his long blades that I have found on the net. His most common hada is ayasugi, followed by masame, followed by soshu in the ratio of 4:2:1. Then there is the odd example of other styles such as koitame.

Cheers,

Bryce

[DRDave]

  On 10/4/2021 at 8:07 PM, Bryce said:

G'day Guys,

I have a database of 53 of his long blades that I have found on the net. His most common hada is ayasugi, followed by masame, followed by soshu in the ratio of 4:2:1. Then there is the odd example of other styles such as koitame.

Cheers,

Bryce

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Bryce,

 

I've noticed he didn't always sign the same side of the blade, and not all had kao.  For Example:

https://www.aoijapan.net/tanto-osaka-ju-gassan-sadakatsu-kinsaku-kao/

https://www.aoijapan.net/tanto-kotaishi-denka-omamorigatana-motte-yotetsusyowa-8nen-12gatsu-kichijitsu-gassan-sadakatsu-saku/  

Do you have any stats on those two differences?

 

With gratitude,

Dave

[Bryce]

G'day Dave,

I have only looked at his long blades, not wakizashi or tanto. About 60% of his blades are signed katana-mei and 40% tachi-mei. It almost looks random, there is no pattern to it that I can see. I have only come across 4 examples without his kao. Two of these are star stamped. There are very few examples to look at, but in general they don't look as good as his blades with a kao.

Cheers,

Bryce

[DRDave]

Thank you, sir!