Wakizashi signed Masahiro

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Hello! 
I would like to know more about the sword and the master. Thank you in advance!

[2devnul]

Hi,

 

Dots on the Nakago-Mune is a thing that interests me. I have something similar on my Koto Bizen Wakizashi and can't find any explanation on what that means. Do you have any ideas? 

 

[atm]

It appears to be signed Sesshu-ju Masahiro. I don’t know its authenticity or anything about the smith, unfortunately. Is it papered?

[Rivkin]

Can't find this signature in Meikan.

So as is:

The nakago looks relatively fresh, shinshinto or late shinto. Sugata tends a bit towards shinshinto - uniform curvature, broad, pronounced kissaki. The signature is very confident and well written. Jigane does not try to be dense itame, which excludes much of shinto. Its trying to be koto, with mokume, some coarseness, possibly with some hue which is difficult to see in photos. That does look like Satsuma hada, which was practiced obviously in Satsuma and by very many in shinshinto. Its well done. Overall appearance is a bit Soshu like, but hamon is completely suffocated by hadori, meaning it probably lacks large, pronounced nie and the modern polish did not do it any favors.

Unlisted smith [but I am not the best with books, so maybe I just did not do the due diligence], possibly authentic, most likely shinshinto, from a lineage which most likely at some point diverged from Satsuma.

[oli]

(from swordsmith fom Japan, Sesko) maybe:

MASAHIRO (正広), Jōō (承応, 1652-1655), Satsuma → YUKIHIRO (行広), 1st gen., Jōō (承応, 1652-1655)

MASAHIRO (正広), Genbun (元文, 1736-1741), Satsuma – “Sasshū-jū Fujiwara Masahiro” (薩州住藤原正広), real

name Somekawa Mokuzaemon (染川杢左衛門), he signed later with Kunitsugu (国次)

 

YUKIHIRO (行広), 1st gen., Jōō (承応, 1652-1655), Satsuma –

“Kawachi no Kami Fujiwara Yukihiro”

(河内守藤原行広), real name Somekawa Tarōzaemon (染川太郎左衛門), he was the son of Somekawa Saibei

Masayasu (染川才兵衛正安) and succeeded as 3rd gen. of the Somekawa family, he studied under Izu no Kami

Masafusa (伊豆守正房) and signed first with Masahiro (正広), later he moved to Kyōto to study under Izumi no Kami

Rai Kinmichi (和泉守来金道), there he also received the honorary title Kawachi no Kami and changed his name from

Masahiro to Yukihiro

 

[atm]

Satsuma (aka Sasshu) is a different province than Settsu (aka Sesshu), so I don’t think those are the rights smiths, @oli. And the character for hiro on the blade is different than what those smiths used. I don’t see a reference to this smith in Sesko.

[oli]

51 minutes ago, atm said:

Satsuma (aka Sasshu) is a different province than Settsu (aka Sesshu), so I don’t think those are the rights smiths, @oli. And the character for hiro on the blade is different than what those smiths used. I don’t see a reference to this smith in Sesko.

oh sorry yes you are right, 

 

thanks

Oli

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Greetings to all!
I found information about this smith, correct me if I'm wrong. I will also add new photos of the seller. The problem is that there is a metal stratification.

SSESHU JU MASAHIRO

Tsuto School, Osaka district, 1650-1700.

This is Master Massahiro, who lived in the province of Setsu, the eastern part of Japan, opposite the island of Awaji. Masahiro is a student of the school's founder, Sukehiro, who later adopted the name Tsuta.

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