How would you describe this hada

[Utopianarian]

I acquired a blade a while ago and to me appears like tight komokune hada and has the crinkle texture that has a 3 dimensional depth to it like it’s encased in ice with bright jinie sprinkled over it. It has a few different qualities to the hada than just one broad categorization of type.

[Nihontocollector752]

Is this on a polished blade? The crinkle or crepe style hada are found on very high quality Aoe blades and known as Chirimen hada but its very hard to see exactly what this is from a single picture and that lighting angle, more pics please

[paulb]

From this image and in its current polish I think it is very difficult to offer any accurate assessment of the hada. I am a little concerned that the bright patches you are describing as ji-nie look large and clumped together which may, but I stress only MAY be an indication of the blade having been in a fire. As Jimmy says more images would be helpful.

 

[Utopianarian]

I posted this sword in the past and was just looking at some of the old pics trying to find out more about it. It currently is being in process of being polished by jimmy Hayashi and habaki and shirasaya by Brian Tschernega. Long wait to have this work completed. Here are some of the old pics. Jimmy thought it did appear like Aoe blade but of course Shinsa recommended. Sorry to some of you that have already seen these pics from old post

[Nihontocollector752]

You have the beginning of a mei which states Bitchu so points to Aoe, is it a true mei remains to be verified with shinsa. It is signed on the katana side so could be Aoe as they did that even when making tachi. The sugata is Nanbokucho so could be Chu-Aoe. I think the jigane is promising but with Aoe you'll want chirimen with certain areas popping itame and some mokume very subtle with activity in the hamon also and as mentioned loads of nie like stardust. Looks like a nice sword, hope to see pics after polish and results after shinsa, fun one to follow

[paulb]

Thank you for the additional images which help a lot. I am reassured by them and the sword looks to be much better than I first thought. It will be interesting to se how it polishes. At the moment there is no clear nioiguchi visible (that I can see anyway) but the polish will reveal what's there.

The shape looks good and the hada promising. Look forward to the end result.

 

[Utopianarian]

Thank you both, I can’t wait to see what it looks like in polish as well. Long wait. Definitely will look better in polish. Also looked sumihada in other pics. Utsuri was also there which I remember had a multilayered colored effect depending on angle and light source. Here is nioiguchi saved from old pics