Kaneomi

[Kevin]

Anyone know anything about a smith called Kaneomi? He's listed in Hawley as KAN 1991 and dated to 1926, but that's all I can find. :?

 

Kevin

[Kevin]

Hmm! Interesting. Seventy two views and no one knows anything about him.

 

Kevin

[Grey Doffin]

Kevin,

Checking my index I find that Kaneomi didn't make it into any of the 68 references included. If Chris Bowen hasn't had anything to say about him you may be out of luck.

Grey

[cabowen]

post a photo of the mei or tell me which kanji are used and I will see what I can find but offhand I don't recall hearing of him...

[Kevin]

Chris, photo of mei attached. The blade has nashiji hada, an irregular gunome hamon and is in tachi koshirae.

 

Kevin

[cabowen]

There was a smith who signed Yoshiomi but I can not find one signing Kaneomi.....

[Mark]

nakago looks poorly finished, yasuri sloppy, mei not that well done. maybe a "factory" blade signed by someone who is not known

[Kevin]

Well, as I said, there's a Kaneomi in Hawley which appears to be him (KAN 1991), but it doesn't offer any more info than he existed, and is dated to 1926. Oh, and that he was a Mino smith. Where, I wonder, did Hawley get his info from?

 

Did they have factories knocking out tachi in 1926? The saya is finished in nashiji-nuri and what appear to be shakudo fittings that have had their patina mostly removed by Duraglit, presumably by some Western collector who thought the patina was dirt or oxidation.

 

Kevin

[cabowen]

Hawley used a variety of Japanese sources. I have checked several of the largest of those, as well a list of Mino Seki smiths published by the Seki smith's association, and not found him listed.

 

Your sword sounds like something made for display.

[loui]

The "nashiji" hada might be an effect of the construction - maybe it is sunobe to:

 

http://www.ksky.ne.jp/~sumie99/sunobe.html

Regards,

 

Louis

[Kevin]

Hmm! Curious. He's in Hawley but doesn't turn up elsewhere. :?

 

Chris, I rather suspect that it was made for display, presentation or something similar. Can't think of any other reason to go to town on the lacquer and use tachi koshirae. It is however also very sharp. BTW it has a pawlonia crest on the fittings. I'd say that the fittings were original.

 

Louis - maybe. Though the hamon looks to be water-quenched and it is in old polish.

 

About the only thing I know about its provenance so far is that it came to the UK via Moses Beccera, or so I am told.

 

Kevin

[loui]

Hi Kevin, without even seeing a picture it is impossible for me to say for sure, but when you mentioned the hada that is what came to mind. I had received an old blade, it was in a very old polish and it was a high quality polish with perfect foundation, the temper was executed very well and was professionally done. This blade was sunobe! The tell tale sign is a hada that looks "sparkly" for lack of a better term, it looks like a very tight hada but in fact there is no hada. There was a Military smith or General who thought this was a quick and efficient way to make swords for war, it was during the late 1800's iirc.

 

I'll have to look up the info in my journals - but someone else probably has the info.

 

Louis

[David Flynn]

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