Bishu Osafune Sukesada

[Nicolas Maestre]

Hi all,

 

After about a month and a half, my first purchase of a Nihonto (Here) is complete ! Sword arrived today. 

And I would really appreciate if you could help me get at least the basic stuff down... For the moment, I would like to make sure I get the Sori, Hamon, and maybe Hada right. 

 

I quickly realized how difficult it is to take pictures of a sword... So for the Sori, vendor's image will do:

https://i.imgur.com/Len2XWO.jpg

 

To me it looks like torii-zori, but I read a lot about sue-bizen, and saki-zori seems to be mentioned all the time... What do you guys think?

 

For the hamon, I would say nioi deki, mainly suguha based, mixed with o-notare??? Difficult to show but I can see some nioi-kuzure. 

https://i.imgur.com/oVOa6sA.jpg

 

Then for the hada, I couldn't manage to take a good picture... Are you able to tell anything from this one? 🙄

https://i.imgur.com/tu8v7yv.jpg

All I can say is that it seems pretty fine, and that hiraji and shinogiji seem different... Is that even possible? Shinogiji looks like masame to me, and shinogiji maybe ko-itame??

 

Thanks in advance as usual 😉

 

Edit: my pictures don't show up... Don't know what I'm doing wrong 😕

[Brian]

Think the images are too large to display directly. I edited them to make them links.

[Nicolas Maestre]

Thanks a lot Brian. 

Hopefully, someone can chime in regarding my questions 😊

[DoTanuki yokai]

For your question about Hada I can tell you that you are right. Masame in the Shinogi is a Shinto trait but the Momoyama Sukesada blades i have seen already have many of the Shinto traits. 

For the Hamon would not say Notare it is more Midare with some changes for me. 
I think Torizori is right but I have also seen Momoyama Sukesada with koshizori. 
In the case of Bizen I would call the Hada Mokume instead of Itame. 
This is just my opinion and I’m no expert. 

[Nicolas Maestre]

Thanks Christian!

 

Complete beginner to Nihonto here, so your opinion is valuable to me 😉

[Nicolas Maestre]

Thinking about the hamon, could this be suguha-hotsure?? (2nd picture in OP)

[DoTanuki yokai]

Mhh hard to tell from the pictures maybe Nioi-Kuzure, one would need to see the Nioi-Guchi at that place but i assume you are right.

 

[Nicolas Maestre]

Thanks Christian!