narzon Posted January 16 Report Posted January 16 Hello, everyone! I'm very much new to collecting and appreciating Nihonto, and this is my first full-sized blade - I was wondering if anyone might be able to shed any insights or thoughts on this mumei? My only thoughts are that its shallow sori and general profile might suggest it's a Shinto blade, but that's about it, and I'm afraid with my (lack of) experience I don't trust myself to try and read into the jigane or hamon. Happy to try and take any other pictures if that might help. Album: https://drive.google...vobNSIrM?usp=sharing Quote
George KN Posted January 17 Report Posted January 17 Hi Nick, welcome to the forum! I've taken the liberty of downloading and resizing your images - people never seem too keen on opening things up on external sites. Also as a bonus, when they're uploaded here they stay forever, making it much easier to do research in the future (the forum search is a wealth of information!): Quote
George KN Posted January 17 Report Posted January 17 I'm also fairly new to the Nihonto world, so can't pass much judgement on the finer points of the blade, but I would say it looks to me like a really nice mumei katana. I would also agree that the general form looks to be Shinto, and the rust levels on the nakago reinforce this - but I can't quite shake the feeling this could be o-suriage, where the entire original tang has been removed? It having been o-suriage would also explain the kiri cut (flat end to the tang - https://japaneseswor...com/terms/terms2.htm)... How long is the sharp part of the blade? Quote
Geraint Posted January 17 Report Posted January 17 Dear both. Note what happens to the hamon at the ha machi............. All the best, 1 Quote
narzon Posted January 17 Author Report Posted January 17 Thank you, George! I had added the photos to Google Drive because I thought it might be the best way to preserve original quality, but I certainly understand the reasons to prefer embedding them directly, and I appreciate you taking the time to do so. I'll take note going forward. And thank you both for your feedback so far - it definitely does look o-suriage to me too, especially seeing the hamon extending down to the nakago. I believe the nagasa is around 62cm / 24.5", so quite a petite blade. 1 Quote
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