Signature verification sought please;

[Henry Stewart]

Gentlemen

 

Does this read Masanori (1st Generation).

 

Henry

[Stephen]

bringing her rightside up

 

Yamato Daijo Fujiwara Masanori

[Henry Stewart]

Stehen

 

If you get a portion blade signature,is there any suspicion about the signature?

 

Henry

[Stephen]

Henry

not sure what your asking, you mean full shot of the tang?

 

only book i have anymore with mei is the yoran, im never one to make judgments on mei's

 

 

[Henry Stewart]

Stephen

 

No,not quite,I mean had anyone any doubt about its being genuine; personally I think its good but there is a lot of loot riding on it and I am curious that none of its previous owners has asked for papers on it,so I added a window shot of its blade.

 

Henry

[Ed Harbulak]

Henry,

The picture of the blade suggests it's a fine, well made sword, however I'd be concerned that the kanji for MASA is totally different from the way it's written in a genuine mei. That may explain why none of the previous owners have bothered to get it papered. Or, perhaps they tried to get it papered but it failed shinsa. On the other hand, if indeed it is a fine, well made blade, then even if it's gimei, it's still a well made blade and the gimei can be removed and perhaps putting the mumei blade through shinsa will reveal who might have actually made it.

Ed Harbulak

[Mark]

I agree with ED. The mei looks questionable to me, masanori signed with a fine (sharp thin) chisel, but in your example the kanji are very "chippy" not as smooth as other references. Some of the kanji seem a bit too "squat"...... If it has ben owned by collectors in the past and has no papers i would be conscerned. I think it best to buy it based on the value of the blade, assuming it is mumei, if a seller wants a premuim based on the mei it seems logical that it waould have been papered in the past to vailidate the mei and the associated Premium

[Eric H]

Have a look at the kanji "masa"

Eric

[Henry Stewart]

Gentlemen

 

Thank you for your opinions,I am very grateful you have taken the time to study this mei.

 

Henry

[Eric H]

If you get a portion blade signature,is there any suspicion about the signature?

The following is a comment by Kazushige Tsuruta "AOI" on a blade by Masanori

 

He was a descendant of the Sanjyo Yoshinori.

He was working at Tango miyatsu province and moved to fukui prefecture.

He was making gunome midare and also suguha hamon mainly.

I think he was influenced by Echizen Yasutsugu.

 

Eric