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Naginata naoshi wakizashi identification


Yamazakura Fr

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Hello

I have this new wakizashi with signature to identificate

This is naoshi naginata (no yokote , unokobi zukuri, iori mune)

total length 46,6 cm

nagasa 36,2 cm

Can anyone translate the signature (I think the thirth kanji for ju and the last hiro?)

Regards

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Thank you for your information

Sory for the naginata naoshi but I was misled by the shape of the unokobi zukuri blade that we find on the naginata but it is indeed a wakizashi ubu

Does anyone have any information about the blacksmith Soshu Fuyuhiro koto because the only information I have concerns Fuyuhiro Jakushu (wakasa)

we found Soshu Fuyuhiro in the Zuikan Tomei Soran with TS332 reference but I have not this

Best regards

 

Bernard

 
 
 
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Plus: the signature is ok written per 16th century standards. Its roughly in the right place, with roughly the right strokes pressure for Sagami school. Its quite a bit rougher though than the better Soshu smiths of the period.

Minus: most likely unrecorded person. But then "hiro" kanji is Soshu kanji and its not at all impossible there was one within the school.

Minus: Just like with Bizen, with Sagami you do have fakes of things which raise eyebrows why on earth one would fake that. It is a very popular school even for non-great objects.

 

Its basically for you to decide. As is it is unlikely to paper - what if the work is just completely different and therefore the papers will look stupid after its polished.

If you polish and its hitatsura than there is a good chance it will be accepted as unrecorded smith. 

Say it comes out as a lesser work in suguha, then its again a lottery - Odawara Soshu in particular produced suguha during its earliest (1470) and latest (1570) periods, but its more difficult to accept a combination of unknown signature and weird work.

 

So I think its up to you. Roughly 50/50 chance its real.

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