Hidetoki wakizashi itosuguha

[Ron M]

Greetings to you all, I have attached some pics of an odd wakizashi I picked up. I believe it’s signed Hidetoki (?) but with a super tight itosuguha hamon I haven’t seen before.

 Any info is great.

regards and respect

[Soshin]

Hi Ron,

 

Thanks for sharing a few photos of your new sword. I only had one Japanese sword with a hamon like that through the years. It was a tanto attributed to Uda Kunimune by the NTHK. It was made circa the Tenbun (天⽂) era of the Late Muromachi Period. I have the hamon as (ko-suguha 小直刃) another term for itosuguha. Here are a few photos I was able to dig up from my archive. Unfortunately, I cannot really offer any additional information about your sword or its maker Hidetoki.              

[DoTanuki yokai]

I always think it requires some skill and Balls to make swords like this  

Maybe this blades are unlikely to break but won’t survive that many polishes. 
So I think there are different reasons to make Ito-Suguha, artistic or for battle depends on the period. 

 

A friend of me owns this Hizen Tadakuni Wakizashi with Ito-Suguha.

 

 

[C0D]

HIDETOKI (秀辰), 2nd gen., Enpō (延宝, 1673-1681), Musashi – “Hitachi no Kami Hidetoki” (常陸守秀辰), “Yamashiro no Kami Fujiwara Hidetoki” (山城守藤原秀辰), “Hidetoki” (秀辰), first name Zen´emon (善右衛門), he later took over the first name Gonbei (権兵衛), according to a theory he was the son of Ōmi no Kami Fujiwara Kiyoshige (近江守藤原清重), he moved later in his career from Ōsaka to Edo

[O-Midare]

A tanto I have in itosuguha, also have a katana in itosuguha.

[C0D]

Ito suguha with bo-utsuri on a Bizen tanto