ADDED MORE PHOTOS: Can someone advise if this Yoshimichi is 1st Generation?

[Winchester]

Hope everyone is doing well. Can someone tell me if this is a 1st generation Yoshimichi? I believe it is, but am still a very new collector. I went to use choji oil on it for maintenance and had to use the fiber cloth to hold the tang which is why it appears somewhat shiny, sorry about that. 

 

Please zoom in on the photo for reference. His signature is known for being in the shape of a boat sail. I have seen others but they do not state online what generation it is--that I could determine.

 

Really nice hamon, big, beautiful, and looks like clouds.

 

Will be taking it to shinsa next year at the Chicago show; just more or less curious in the mean time. I really like it. Thanks in advance.

 

 

Edited August 24, 2022 by Winchester
Added many more photos

[Baba Yaga]

May be the photos, but Nakago and Mei don't look right at all. Mei looks way to deep and clean. Could be the light and angle. 

[Winchester]

I should know better than to post just one picture and not several showing the overall detail. Sorry. 

 

This is at an awkward angle because I had other projects on my bench; which is also why I was holding it with one hand an got choji oil on it all over with a microfiber cloth, but later wiped off the excess. I'll follow up with more pictures soon.

 

 

[Winchester]

Here are some more photos.

[Winchester]

And more photos.....I just used a microfiber cloth to remove the choji oil on it, but some finely remains.

[Winchester]

More photos.............

[Winchester]

And even more photos......(can only fit two images at a time due to max file size).

 

Please zoom in for more details.

[Winchester]

Better pictures of the hamon, trying to capture in the light.

[Winchester]

Photos of the reverse side, had challenges with the lighting.

[Winchester]

^^^ Not sure why the last image above shows scratches, think it is just streaks in the remaining oil. There are no scratches in person.

[Infinite_Wisdumb]

I dont see sudare-ba hamon

 

Here are pics from my papered Shodai Osaka Tanba no kami Yoshimichi (1st generation)

 

[Infinite_Wisdumb]

[Infinite_Wisdumb]

1st Gen mei is on the left @Winchester - yours looks most like 3rd gen IMO

[Jacques]

Definitively not the Kyo shodai

[Winchester]

Thank you all for your help. It was of interest and note that I thought I saw similarities; however, this hobby is purely for my interest. That is, I was not expecting a big pay day. Who knows…maybe this blind squirrel will find a nut one of these days. Best to you and yours; thought I was close.