Real or fake fighting?

[tokashikibob]

Real or fake fighting?    Here is a recent acquisition a Ishido

school sword with a sheetz-pot full of kirikomi kizu.    Looking at this

nihonto objectively was it wielded in massive battle(s) or did the grandkid

practice with it?

 

There are 12 chips and cuts to the sword.  Many are deep. 

  The hypothetical scenario that this damaged was caused by fun and games

well, that is a lot of swinging by the 13 year old and since many are edge

imprints of another sword very dangerous for the teens who were swinging.

I can see one or two blows but this many?

 

  This would have happened after the blade was polished by a pro and had

tsukimaki and all the rest completed.  That is hard to contemplate also.

Question to you all is:  How many kirikomi have you seen on a Warring

States era blade ?

 

[Toryu2020]

A polisher should remove any but the deepest chip. kirikomi are often left alone. Hard to tell from your photos but these cuts look new - I think this happened after the polish so I am calling Shenanigans!

-t

[PNSSHOGUN]

Judging from the mountings it may have been used in a Dojo setting with some particularly keen practitioners.

[Dave R]

Read here.... http://www.ksky.ne.jp/~sumie99/Sueyuki1.html