Help for translation needed

[alaen305]

hi please I need to know if this sword is handmade and the translation and if it is original and worth a review thanks

 

alaen305

[Bazza]

  alaen305 said:

hi please I need to know if this sword is handmade and the translation and if it is original and worth a review thanks

 

alaen305

Mr alaen305, do please use your real name if you are going to call on the expertise of other people to do your work for you... Also, for a new subject please start a new thread...

 

The first picture is a date SHOWA JU ROKU NEN JU NI GATSU = December 1941

The last picture purports to be the swordsmith's name YOSHICHIKA.

 

This signature is obviously non-genuine = a fake. Not a real Japanese sword, a Chinese nothing copy, with no real value.

 

Regards,

Barry Thomas.

[Bruno]

Can we see pics of the koshirae and tip of the blade?

 

The signature looks like the typical arrow head style commonly found on machine made swords.

[alaen305]

hello sorry my name is alaen, this is the tip of another sword also purchased this wakizashi carved bone would know what you think,thank you very much for your help this and a very great help these ebay sellers are thieves crooks

alaen

[John A Stuart]

The wakizashi (Franco) is a tourist piece with a metal tsunagi holding together a carved bone koshirae, rarely ivory. Some can look rather nice displayed, but, as to nihonto are usually ill-considered. John

[Bruno]

The katana looks like a late war pattern army Type 3.

 

Machine made, oil tempered, maybe hand-finished, not a great sword but an authentic military Japanese sword.

 

Yoshichika is one of the numerous Seki Kaji Tosho.

 

Regards

[alaen305]

thanks john what you think of the other firm, and koshirae of gunto , and the wakizashi is original nihonto

[David Flynn]

alean, I suggest you stop trying to "Bargain hunt," on ebay. Most of us watch what is being offered on ebay and choose, very carefully. What I suggest you do, is see as many true nihonto as you can. Study the books, save up and buy from either another collector or a dealer. Unless you really know what you are doing, you will only waste your money on ebay.

 

David

[alaen305]

hi this wakizashi have not signed and not koshirae and I want to mount it in Shirasaya I like to know if anyone would know who is the forge and that age,the size is 21" nagasa and total 26 1/2 this sword has a beautiful hamon and would like to send to polish how much will it cost and how that might be worth when this project is completed thanks

 

Alaen

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[machinist]

You can look at this (http://www.Japanese-swords.com/) site for some info on prices, I have never dealt with this fellow and I am not very knowledgeable about these things. I think it is safe to say you may pay more restoring this than you may get back unless your blade is very valuable and then it should go to a higher grade polisher. There is a strong belief on this site that you should spend your first thousand dollars on books before buying a sword, I did not do that but I lurk this site and several other and search out on line dealers to get a small idea of what is going on and think you will be happier if you save your money until you find one that is all polished up and mounted as you like it.

Edit to add

Polishing is a serious endeavor so you should get better opinions than mine and show your blade in person to knowledgeable people so you do not send a great blade to a cheap polisher or otherwise waste your money. Mostly just lurk more.

[Bruno]

  machinist said:

The first picture is a date SHOWA JU ROKU NEN JU NI GATSU = December 1941

 

December 1941? Isn't weird for a sword in a mount created in 1943?

 

Well I guess it has been remounted, hasn't it?