Fake signed sword

[Henrik S]

Hello!

I need help with this blade wich I unfortunately recently bought. This was an impulse buy and I know nothing about the blade.

it is signed on one side of the tang. The Hamon line looks too straight and I have an overall bad feeling about this blade.

The total length is 89 cm, the blade itself is 71 cm.It is quite heavy, 894 grams.

Can engine tell me more about it?
Best regards
Henrik

[Matsunoki]

Many genuine swords from all periods have a straight hamon (suguha) but sadly this blade is a fake……but it seems you already knew this. 

[Gilles]

I agree with Colin. The mekugi ana is too low on the nakago and the kanji are just not right. Red light for this one.

[Henrik S]

Thanks for your answers, as I suspected. It will disappear in my box for mistakes.

 

[Henrik S]

One final question about the blade, it looks quite strange where you should put the habaki. Almost as if someone had cut the blade down and moved the habaki forward. I’m not saying that the two experts are wrong but why make the tang larger? I took some pictures, hope you can see what I mean. Someone has tried to polish the sword so it is all full of scratches.

[Matsunoki]

That feature is a classic known feature  of Chinese fakes and found on huge numbers of their output. It is one of the most obvious telltales.

[Brian]

Agree, fake.

[moriarty]

Funnily enough, they choose a famous name for the fake mei 兵庫県井上安治 (Hyogo Prefecture, Inoue Yasuji). 

Big fan of his artistic prints. 

[Kiipu]

兵庫県 Hyōgo Prefecture.

井上安治 Inoue Yasuji.

[Bruce Pennington]

Yes, the Japanese only offset the machi in Type 95 NCO blades.  Offset machi in officer blades is seen only in Chinese blades.

 

Sure would still like to see close-ups of the fittings.