Weird Emura sword on ebay

[katanako]

There is an "Emura" gunto on ebay in which the signature reads

MURAE SAKU. I've never come across a swordsmith misspelling his own name!!!

 

 

Japanese WW2 SWORD SHIN GUNTO GENDAITO BY EMURA

SIGNED BY CHOUNSAI EMURA Item number: 220420126389

 

Has anyone ever run across such a thing??? Either he was drunk when he or his student signed it, or it is a forgery done by a Gaijin who doesn't know kanji!

It's funny...and as of now,there are 10 bids on it!!!

 

KATANAKO

[Rich S]

Very strange indeed. What is stranger is that the Kanji are carved

correctly for Emura (see oshigata B on my Emura page). My "guess"

is that a student carved them backwards or maybe was just really

pi$$ed at the boss :-) One of the weirdest I've ever seen.

 

Rich S

[Stephen]

maybe the student was dyslexic, everything about the blade says Emura, its going to go for a good sum, kinda like if Picasso signed backwards.

[Brian]

Even stranger....I seem to remember seeing this discussed on the forum a long time ago on another (or the same?) blade. I remember us discussing a "Mura-e"..anyone else remember that?

Hard to search the forum for, but I'll see if I can track it down.

 

Brian

[Stephen]

I had that memory as well but thought it was just old age.

[bdgrange]

Someone here once said: "if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it

must be one." Looks good to me as well.

Bill de

[pcfarrar]

I had that memory as well but thought it was just old age.

 

I remember too it was a couple of years back. Emura's are really starting to command high prices these days, it wasn't so long ago that you could buy them for less than $1000.

[Mark Green]

Hi gang.

I have seen some very good, and papered Emura blades. But, many were made by the prisoners he trained. Does that make a ww2 gendi worth 3k+.

He must have been one hell of a teacher.

Are his sword Tamahagane?

[pcfarrar]

Are his sword Tamahagane?

 

Weren't they rumoured to have made their own Tamahagane in the prison?

[Mark Green]

I heard that. But it was something like a scrap iron mix smelter.

Which, likely makes some good sword making steel. I don't know for sure though. I'm sure someone here has better info than I.

I have heard many modern smiths, build there own Tatara, and throw every kind of steel in there to geat a very Tamahagane like stuff, that seems to make some very good looking swords.

[Rich S]

I think (?) that is called orishigane, but memory (like most else) may

be failing.

 

Rich S