Number Kanji on Reverse Nakago

[SwordGuyJoe]

All,

I ran across a sword on eBay that has number Kanji on the back of it and it reminded me that I have a Shin-gunto Nagamura Kiyonobu with something similar. On the reverse side of the nakago, is a Jyu (see 1st photo attached). I always thought it was nothing, until I saw the sword on eBay (second photo attached).

Mine:

 

 

eBay:

 

 

Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.

[Gunome]

Hi,

 

maybe a serial number :

十 : 10

七 八 : 7 8

I have very few knowledge on gunto ... sorry

 

Sébastien

[Jacques]

Hi,

 

Maybe i'm wrong, but i've a bad feeling with these blades.

 

Link please?

[Stephen]

bit quesy on the first pix also, the second looks like numbers i have seen on a Mantetsu nakago-mune

[Jean]

If it's a nakago picture, I agree with Jacques, it is not Japanese, vertical yasurime???

[Jean]

Or a global picture is needed, too distorted, too partial.

[SwordGuyJoe]

I am pretty comfortable on my Kiyonobu and confident that it is not a fake or something to make someone queasy, but you can see a larger pic here as well as more of the sword:

http://web.me.com/joseph.kraninger/Joes ... bu.html#37

 

The symbol - if not a jyu - is very small, maybe a cm in size.

[Amon]

  Jean said:

If it's a nakago picture, I agree with Jacques, it is not Japanese, vertical yasurime???

 

I agree with you Jean and Jacques, the jiri seems kind of strange also

[SwordGuyJoe]

Additionally, Larry took a look at this and I think if it looked off for any reason he would have told me. Pics should tell the story well enough. Off topic, how do you get a good pic of the hamon? I have tried a couple different ways with less than successful results.

[Amon]

  SwordGuyJoe said:

Additionally, Larry took a look at this and I think if it looked off for any reason he would have told me. Pics should tell the story well enough. Off topic, how do you get a good pic of the hamon? I have tried a couple different ways with less than successful results.

 

Hi Joe!

 

I'm not a photographer in anyway but try many different angels and use the light as much as possible. A good angle in a dark enviroment with a good flash can sometimes reveal much.

[Jean]

Nothing I can say, I am not at all familiarized with this kind of sword, but from the pictures It seems that there is no yokote, I don't see any hada ,the hamon is indistinct, the nakago jiri has been grinded but perhaps it is the norm on this kind of blade but is it a traditionnal one??? I am a newbie in this field