Tanto Kantei! Lovely Hada..

[Munetsugu]

Good afternoon, 

 

So I did a stall at the Birmingham arms fair this weekend just gone and upon begrudgingly selling a lovely wakizashi I've had since I started collecting. I took a px on it with a quite nice looking tanto.. I have no idea what it is as of yet as I've just starting looking to kantei it however there's a few kantei points which are putting me in a couple of directions so thought it would be fun to put it on here and see what people's thoughts are. 

 

Mitsu-mune is one of the things which was noticed. 

 

The hada on this is fantastic in hand and very hard to capture on camera but I've tried and have uploaded a couple of pictures. It's very even and well distributed along the blade. 

 

Suguha hamon, with very nice clear and even Nioi. 

 

Nakago I think looks shinto, and has feint kiri (horizontal) yasurime marks. 

 

Unokubi zukuri shape

 

Nagasa 28.2cm

 

Shinogi-ji near munemachi 9mm

 

Would be great to hear peoples opinions on this one. 

 

Thank you🙂 

 

Kind regards, 

 

Chuck. 

 

 

 

 

 

[Ooitame]

Looks Bizen to me, late Muromachi, maybe Sukesada or Sukemitsu. Nice grab, looks great!

[Brian]

Good looking blade in good polish. I like the hada. Professional or at the very least very decent polish.

[Rivkin]

Nice blade, late Muromachi, but otherwise it starts to get weird.

Could be Bizen, but mitsumune and nakago are uncommon for the school.

Looks very much like Mihara, but again mitsumune is not common.

On the other hand, tensho period's Odawara did work in suguha a lot, can be a good match.

[sabiji]

Looks more like a Yamashiro utsushi at first glance. Momoyama to early Edo.

Tanto from Kyoto have always been in demand (Awataguchi, Rai). After the Kyoto exodus with the end of Kamakura and at the latest from Onin the source dried up. So many smiths copied e.g. also Rai.
It seems to have Masame, or at least Nagare in Shinogi-ji, plus the Sakisori. Therefore my idea would be something between Tensho and Keicho.

[NewB]

Shitahara?

 

Y.

[lonely panet]

i see nothing Bizen related.