My new Wakizashi paper to Oda Kunimune

[Markdd]

Here's my latest

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[Scogg]

Very cool and congratulations. Very neat and interesting kashira! 

Thanks for sharing,
-Sam

[Rivkin]

Are papers NTHK?

[Toryu2020]

Uda Kunimune?

[Lewis B]

  On 9/6/2024 at 4:22 PM, Toryu2020 said:

Uda Kunimune?

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Yes, seller says the attribution is 4th generation Uda Kunimune.  

[Rivkin]

I'm just going to state what I think. I am sorry it will sound rough.

NBTHK holds Uda Kunimune in a bit higher regard than say Tomotsugu. If it writes Tomotsugu its late Muromachi, if its Kunimune it can be on the edge between Nanbokucho and Muromachi and generally hamon can have decent work in nie. One usually goes for TH to "confirm" its Nanbokucho. I don't want to check, lazy, but then you have Kunifusa which they give to good early Muromachi Uda with tight itame and there are  couple of other Muromachi names.

This being said in kantei they are all considered Muromachi by default and atari to each other.

 

This one is clearly late Muromachi, not Nanbokucho, so it has to be NTHK papers.

NTHK works differently in a sense they give a name + date so they can have anydate Kunimine - early, late etc..

Nevertheless, this example has very uncommon for Uda nakago, its hadamono with weak hamon suffocated by hadori. Late uda will have rough hada and coarse, nie based hamon.

I suspect this is post 2021 NTHK or NTHK NPO papers with a Strange Attribution.

[b.hennick]

I like the koshirae a lot. 👍👍

[PNSSHOGUN]

Extraordinary Koshirae, very attractive.

[Markdd]

Hi,

Thanks for the info here's the papers

[Shugyosha]

I may be misreading this, but do the papers date the blade to around Enpo? ( 延宝頃 ) ? If so, late 17th century rather than koto period?

 

[Rivkin]

I possibly see Enkyo, which would make it not a Meikan recorded smith.

It can be a shinto rather than Muromachi nakago.

In my impression shinto's Uda were a generic shinto style smiths:

https://www.aoijapan...katana-uda-kunimune/

but possibly the meaning behind the papers is that some continued to imitate the Muromachi style. In which case its actually an interesting attribution.

 

 

[Toryu2020]

I believe what you are seeing is Den: Etchu Kodai Uda Kunimune. a place name not a date...

[Shugyosha]

I’m looking at the left hand column next to the seals, not the attribution. That says “later generation Uda Kunimune”. 

[Toryu2020]

I see. I agree Empo goro.

[Shugyosha]

There are a couple on line dated to Kanbun, so maybe Empo isn't such a stretch. The one at Aoi has a similar nakago jiri to that in Mark's OP.

 

https://www.aoijapan...katana-uda-kunimune/

 

https://www.samuraim...nteisho-certificate/