help with Hot Stamp

[Mark]

A friend bought a sword that is not signed but has a "Hot Stamp". It is a hirazukuri katana with wild gunome/chogi. It is well made and i would guess late shinshinto or gendai. My friend is trying to idendify the maker. Has anyone seen this stamp before?

 

Thanks

[John A Stuart]

My eyes let me down sometimes even with cheaters, but, that isn't a stamp is it? That is a hot forge welded seal of some sort, coming out from the nakago not recessed, right? Never saw one that I can recall. John

[Mark]

must be the camera but it is stamped into the steel

[John A Stuart]

That is one hell of an optical illusion then!! No kakihan/ kokuin in my books match. John

[Mark]

John

 

Thanks for looking!

[Baka Gaijin]

Morning All,

 

Turn the image 180 degrees and the cameo becomes intaglio.

 

(The illusion is a simple case of higher - level cognitive patterning)

 

Can't help with the stamp though.

 

Cheers

 

Malcolm

[John A Stuart]

I tried that Malcolm and it still looks like that rock formation that looks like a face on Mars.

[Baka Gaijin]

Hi John,

 

All I can suggest is to keep looking at the 180 reversed image, perhaps sweeping the eyeline from 45 degrees left through right.

 

It should reverse to make an intaglio, but sometimes you have to "encourage" the flip in the illusion to occur.

 

(I have to own up to being a child of the 60's and weaned on a heady mixture of Escher & Vasarelly.....)

 

Cheers

 

Malcolm

[Brian]

OT, I know...but I had to turn it 180 degrees too, to see it as impressed. Wierd illusion.

Now I can see it as indented, but no idea what stamp it is.

 

Brian

[Mark]

Brian

 

thanks for fixing the picture. it looks better. I am hoping someone on the list may own, or remeber a sword with this stamp that was signed, worth a try

[Brian]

Am I the only one that sees the logo for the industrial band Einstürzende Neubauten?

 

Brian

 

[Mark]

Brian

 

Ha-ha... actually the stamp is the other way, he circle is at the bottom

[doug e lewis]

john may be on to something

 

the sword was forged by Martians who secretly visited Nippon in the mid-Kamakura Era, and taught secret sword forging techiques to Masamune. :lol:

 

doug e

[tagonagy]

The stamp sort of looks like the one Asano Kanesane uses. Here is a link about him.

http://home.earthlink.net/~steinrl/kanezane.htm

[Mark]

Kanezane's stamp has 4 clear points and the one i am working on has smooth edges

[Gabriel L]

The brain assumes light comes from the sky, not the ground. That's the basis of this illusion.

[drbvac]

Well I think it looks like a little man with a head-dress on - never seen any stamp like it !