tanto thoughts

[sorisori]

hello everyone，What you thought of this tanto?

[sorisori]

I recently purchased this tando and was curious about it and wanted to confirm its authenticity, but I could not contact its first seller directly

[SteveM]

Looks good to me. It looks like a very well-made tantō.

The registration card is a very old one, from November 1955. Note the registration card doesn't prove authenticity, and it doesn't give an attribution to any swordsmith. It's just a card that registers weapons (guns, swords) to the local Board of Education.  

[Matsunoki]

To me it looks a late Muromachi period Mino Tanto.

The polish is “interesting” . It seems to have a very pronounced Hadori finish that bears absolutely no relation to the actual visible gunome hamon. This (coupled with working simply from images) makes it difficult to see any of the finer details in the hamon. The hamon looks to dip fairly close to the ha in places.

Could you show an image of the  whole blade without the habaki and with the tip pointing upwards?

[sorisori]

11 hours ago, Matsunoki said:

To me it looks a late Muromachi period Mino Tanto.

The polish is “interesting” . It seems to have a very pronounced Hadori finish that bears absolutely no relation to the actual visible gunome hamon. This (coupled with working simply from images) makes it difficult to see any of the finer details in the hamon. The hamon looks to dip fairly close to the ha in places.

Could you show an image of the  whole blade without the habaki and with the tip pointing upward

 

[Soshin]

The very last photo I can see the true yakiba ( 焼き刃) more clearlly from habori polish. The shape of the temper pattern is a saka-gunome (逆互の目) that is low and close to the edge. I would agree @Matsunoki attribution to Mino-den and would add that the tanto is likely one of Sue-Seki schools circa the late Muromachi Period. I hope you find this additional information helpful.  

[Matsunoki]

Rowan, can’t add much more except to say the blade probably had significantly more depth (and thus a wider hamon) originally which has been reduced by polishing over the many years. That is not unusual. It would not be so good if the hamon actually dips off the edge …but we can’t see from these images.

All the best.Colin

[sorisori]

I agree with you because this tanto is not sharp at all, thank you very much for your opinion everyone.

[Alex A]

Jihada looks a bit too good for the typical Sue-seki

 

The nakago-ana look really crisp.

 

As always, difficult from images.

[sorisori]

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