Kantei 2

[DoTanuki yokai]

Another Kantei i hope you can again excuse the dust and other things on my camera lens.

To be fair i want to say that the blade got no papers but a signature and this is for fun i think.

Also the polish looks old but i think this is a more fun way to ask if the signature could be shoshin.

 

Nagasa: 45,6cm

Sori: 1,45cm

Motohaba: 2,7cm

Sakihaba: 1,99cm

Kasane: 5mm 

 

Edit: Forgot to say that the Shinogi is low and the Kissaki is 2,85cm Long

 

[DoTanuki yokai]

[AntiquarianCat]

I know I’m sure to strike out but something makes me want to say Bizen Kiyomitsu.

[WulinRuilong]

Looks like Sue Bizen to me. 

Also, It's a long shot, but it could be Taira-Takada.

 

[Alex A]

Yes, i think Bizen too, and on that note i will go with a Sukesada of some sorts.

[Rivkin]

yes, probably I'll pile onto sue-Bizen wagon.

[PNSSHOGUN]

The Nakago-Jiri is a dead giveaway for Muromachi Bizen.

[Alex A]

Another i thought it might be, couldnt remember earlier.

 

Norimitsu.

 

 

[AntiquarianCat]

I guess my reason for guessing Bizen Kiyomitsu is it looks sue-Bizen, has suguha and coarseish hada, so B. Kiyomitsu is as good a gamble as any.

[DoTanuki yokai]

Alex Nailed it with Sukesada but everyone were also close. 

Maybe i should have hidden the Nakago 

This blade does not have papers and maybe im a little biased because i own it so what are your opinions on the Signature ?

[David Flynn]

I don't believe one should post a Kantei, without authentication..    This should have been for opinions on whether or not it was Shoshin.     So if this sword, comes to be Gimei, it then throws everything into confusion.    I'm not saying this isn't shoshin,  it probably is.   

[AntiquarianCat]

I still found it quite useful as a how to spot sue-bizen from photos refresher.

[DoTanuki yokai]

David, I mentioned  in my first post that this blade got no papers and I don’t want to influence study with wrong information. 

Every identification thread is some kind of Kantei  thread but by going this route I can sort out the influence of a possibly fake signature.

 

Also even the NBTHK is sometimes wrong. 

 

[Alex A]

You see signed Sukesada blades with really shoddy looking mei that you would think are gimei at first glance but are papered Hozen. They are difficult to match as so many signed.

 

Look at the blade first, everyone said Bizen after all.

 

I think sometimes there is no need to pay for Shinsa.

 

Awarded NMB Hozen 

 

 

 

[Shugyosha]

I think the Bizen workshops in the Muromachi period had a production line system with a guy for signatures who sometimes wasn’t so careful. Also the spidery mei (according to Darcy I think) was to avoid work-hardening the tang. 

[Alex A]

Can imagine many scenarios that would make for a dodgy mei

 

”Sign this last bunch and as soon as your finished you can get off”

 

Just one example

 

Ps, not saying the mei on your wak looks dodgy, looks ok to me!