Any advice would be welcome

[Kmad]

Hi, a friend just did a trade for this, any info on the sword welcome, pictures terrible I know and i have asked for more. Regards ken

[Ron M]

Bishu Osafune Ju Sukesada. Not much to see except nice fittings if cleaned up but looks legit -ish. What’s the cutting edge length (Nagasa)?

[NewB]

Hello

 

welcome. Looks like a great ‘same’ with nice ornaments (menuki). It’s looks like from the bishu sukesada school. Please don’t try to clean anything as of yet until you read ‘how to take care of nihonto’. 
 

cheers

 

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[Rivkin]

It wants to be shinto, maybe shinshinto Sukesada. I would search on the web for all available signatures (there should be quite a few) and try to find a close match. The writing is not terrible, so there is a chance.

[Kmad]

Sorry I don't understand what you mean by this statement

It wants to be shinto, maybe shinshinto Sukesada. 

 

Is this a good school to have  a sword from

Thanks

Ken

[NewB]

30 minutes ago, Kmad said:

Sorry I don't understand what you mean by this statement

It wants to be shinto, maybe shinshinto Sukesada. 

 

Is this a good school to have  a sword from

Thanks

Ken

Different time periods (feel free to research each word I.e Shinto and shinshinto). There are over 200 smiths that signed with that name so narrowing down the period is just for research purposes. To me the good news is that the tang hasn’t been shortened and the patina hasn’t been altered. Very important 

 

to me it looks like lazy uchi mono but that’s a far fetched unsubstantiated guess 

 

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[Bugyotsuji]

Predictive text warning! Probably means ‘Kazu-uchi mono’ above.

[NewB]

6 hours ago, Bugyotsuji said:

Predictive text warning! Probably means ‘Kazu-uchi mono’ above.

 

Thank you. 
 

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[Robert S]

I liked lazy uchi mono :-)

[NewB]

On 11/6/2024 at 3:38 PM, Robert S said:

I liked lazy uchi mono :-)

One a second thought I like it also

 

haha

 

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