A Study: Yasukuni-to

[Volker62]

That depicted Tanto  here in Tom Kishidas book is dated showa 15, first month january 1940

 

without "kin saku" signature

 

 

it has the typical Yaskuni Horimono

[oli]

41 minutes ago, Stephen said:

@oli

 

Few ifs 

If you can read Japanese 

If buyee will send to your country 

https://buyee.jp/ite...=service_page_search

I'll dig around if see if i have one stashed away.

 

Sadly i can't read Japanese. But it is ok maybe one day i find one in english,

 

Regards

Oli

[Volker62]

Stephen

 

maybe this help's 

[Volker62]

by the way:

 

of the few previous Tanto I've seen over the many yearsthey also had a mitsumune

[Guest Simon R]

26 minutes ago, oli said:

Sadly i can't read Japanese. But it is ok maybe one day i find one in english,

 

Regards

Oli

This is the JSSUS pdf of Kenji Mishina's translation of Tom Kishida's book.

 

http://www.jssus.org/yasakunito.pdf

[Stephen]

50 minutes ago, oli said:

Sadly i can't read Japanese. But it is ok maybe one day i find one in english,

 

Regards

Oli

Still good for checking mei.

[Stephen]

49 minutes ago, Volker62 said:

Stephen

 

maybe this help's 

Thank you I was just showing the book I'll put for sale if anyones interested. 

 

 

[Karu]

Ikeda Yasumitsu dated Showa 12 (1937) for sale here : https://www.jauce.com/auction/m1108303859

[BANGBANGSAN]

I read this interview with 大崎靖宗 Osaki Yasumune, and the interviewer is 栗原謙二 Kurihara Kenji, a apprentice of the second-generation 小林康広 Kobayashi Yasuhiro. In the article, some interesting story is mentioned, where 靖宗 Yasumune talks about"In fact,we use oil to soften the blade after water quenching to improve it's flexibility.And this method was invented by Dr.Kuto Haruto 工藤治人(The chariman of Yasuki Steel Mill Company 安來鋼製作所 ）.It was certainly a better method for cooling down the entire blade more evenly than the traditional method."

 

 

[paul griff]

Thank’s for posting Tristan..very interesting reading..

Regards,

              Paul.

[Brian]

I suppose he's talking about the annealing process after the hardening in water. Makes sense, it's a common method.

[Volker62]

please read the reasearch about Yasukuni to, by Mr. Han Bing Siong 

[Karu]

Hello Volker

Do you have any links to read Mr Han Bing Siong's work ?.

I have already seen that you posted 3 pages of it discussing about which he considered the best among Yasukuni smiths, but if you have the full thing, or any way to buy it please tell us.