Date from a Gendaito early Showa

[oli]

Hi,

 

have some problem to identify the date on my Gendaito, any help would be very nice,

 

thanks

Oliver

[Ray Singer]

A lucky day in June 1943

[uwe]

It's a imperial date "皇紀二千六百三年六月吉日" (lucky day on the 6th month 1943...)

 

 

Ah, Ray was faster...

[oli]

oh wow this was fast, thank you both!

 

Regards

Oliver

[Bruce Pennington]

Hi Oliver!  Any chance this is a star-stamped gendaito?

[oli]

Hi Bruce,

 

no stamps sorry, hope the picture from the other side isen't to dark,

 

Regards

Oliver

[cisco-san]

seems to be xxx Akinobu saku kore and might be a nice blade

[oli]

27 minutes ago, cisco-san said:

seems to be xxx Akinobu saku kore and might be a nice blade

Yes its is a gunsui-to from Akinobu, very heavy and thick

 

Thank you

Oli

[ROKUJURO]

But obviously it is not EARLY SHOWA.

[Xander Chia]

8 hours ago, cisco-san said:

seems to be xxx Akinobu saku kore and might be a nice blade

Looks like 以群水鋼.

http://ohmura-study.net/208.html

[cisco-san]

14 hours ago, oli said:

Yes its is a gunsui-to from Akinobu, very heavy and thick

 

Thank you

Oli

Hallo Oli,

 

would like to see some pics from the blade

 

lg Klaus

[oli]

43 minutes ago, cisco-san said:

would like to see some pics from the blade

where are some in Gunto picture thread form Michael. I am waitung for sunny days to make good picture, but i have one closeup for you,

 

Regards

Oli

[Volker62]

does it read "gunsui hagane" Akinobu?

 

rare signature , for gunsui hagane  refer also sword smith Ryuminsai Kanetomo

[oli]

Hi Volker,

 

yes its gunsui hagane wo motte. Not so many information about Akinobu:

AKINOBU (昭信), Shōwa (昭和, 1926-1989), Chiba – “Akinobu” (昭信), real name Hatano

Yasuo (幡野保雄), born 1899, he studied under Kurihara Akihide (栗原昭秀) and worked as a

rikugun-jumei-tōshō, kihin no retsu (Akihide), Special Honor Seat at the 6th Shinsaku Nihontō

Denrankai (新作日本刀展覧会, 1941)

And it would be interesting to see a Akinobu Katana made with Tamahage. But i didn´t find any pictures.

 

Article about Kanetomo: http://www.nihontocraft.com/Kanetomo.html 

KANETOMO (兼友), Shōwa (昭和, 1926-1989), Gunma –

“Kōzuke-jūnin Ryuminsai

Kanetomo saku” (上野住人龍眠斎兼友), “Ryuminsai Kanetomo Nyūdō kore o saku”

(龍眠斎兼友入道之作), real name Kiribuchi Yūji (桐渕又市・桐淵又一), gō Ryūminsai

(龍眠斎), he worked as rikugun-jumei-tōshō and lived in Tomioka´s (富岡) Nanukaichi (七日市), he

also made gunsui-tō, kihin no retsu (Akihide), First Seat at the 6th Shinsaku Nihontō Denrankai

(新作日本刀展覧会, 1941), chū-saku

 

Maybe both smith have a connection, not shure about it

 

Regards

Oli