New addition to the collection

[Jon]

Wakizashi by Izumo Daijo Masamitsu. From AKI, 1830-44. What is really telling on this blade is the Motokasane, this is profoundly thick and heavy blade for its size. From a person who loved fencing and all things swords…it’s profoundly different from the koto blade I have and event the early EDO, which was thicker than the koto but this late EDO wakizashi is a whole new level…interesting to get a late EDO blade in hand and see the differences.

Blade length : 520mm (20.47 in.) 
Curvature : 10mm (0.39 in.) 
Total length : 750mm (29.53 in.) 
Motohaba : 30.2mm (1.19 in.) 
Sakihaba : 20.8mm (0.82 in.) 
 Motokasane: 7.2mm (0.28 in.) 
Sakikasane : 5.9mm (0.23 in.) 

 

It’s in good Polish no ware at all,  cost me £800 including postage and import costs.

[Jon]

[2devnul]

Congratulations!

 

I'm not sure how to understand this "It’s in good Polish no ware at all ..."

I'm Polish, want to talk about it?

 

But seriously, do you mean the polish level isn't good enough? Hard to tell from pictures (I can't see Hada at all), but this looks quite good to me. 

[Scogg]

Looks like a great buy Jon!

Its so tough to capture the jihada in images. Are you able to see it in-hand? 

Thanks for sharing pieces of your collection, 
Cheers,
-Sam

 

[Infinite_Wisdumb]

nice!!

[Stephen]

Good one Jon

[Jon]

  On 9/29/2023 at 1:56 PM, GeorgeLuucas said:

Its so tough to capture the jihada in images. Are you able to see it in-hand? 

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I think the sword has a Nashiji Hada, which you can just see in these pictures ( although I may be wrong).  The Boshi  really clear turnback as well which you can see. 
 

[2devnul]

"I think the sword has a Nashiji Hada..."

+1 to that. 

 

Might be silly but my patent to capture Hada is to make video (you just watch phone/camera while filming to see if Hada appears). Then play that video on PC, stop where Hada is mostly visible and take a screenshot 

 

Example:

[Jon]

Adam that’s actually a really clever us of tec..just randomly taking pictures of something that’s depending on the exact play of light. Is difficult..filming it then picking the still with the best shot…brilliant.

[DoTanuki yokai]

Not every Koitame or Komokume or mujifu is Nashiji and I read it more and more often here. 
Here are some stuff to think about 

http://www.ksky.ne.j...shigeappearance.html

 

at the end of the page comes a link to this page that is also worth to read I think 

 

http://www.ksky.ne.j...sumie99/nashiji.html