Katana signature

[stannadel]

Hi everyone, I'm very happy to have discovered Nihonto and hope you can help me. I have a Katana with shinguto mounts that has 2 holes in the tang. It is signed (see picture) and I'm told these kanji stand for Kanesada. The list in John Yumoto's book has only one Kanesada with these kanji--worked in Mino in 1681. But I'm told that there were others who signed this way including Hachiya Kanesada (蜂屋兼貞?). I'm attaching a picture of the signature and one of the blade. Thanks for any help on this.

 

Stan Nadel

[Geraint]

Welcome Stan.

 

Looks nice from what we can see but I am sure that everyone will want at least photographs of the entire blade, both sides, not to mention close ups of the nakago and the boshi if you can get it.

Looking forward to them.

 

Regards

[Jean]

Scores of smiths with this signature

[stannadel]

OK, here are pics of the whole blade--both sides, boshi (both sides) & nakago (signed side). I hope they help.

[Ron STL]

Looks like a handsome blade, very masculine looking! Which Kanesada this might be...that might be hard to determine being a niji-mei. Could this be sue-koto work? A nice big blade like this with what looks like an active hamon, nice horimono (hi)...would be beautiful, restored.

 

Ron H.

[stannadel]

I had suspected Koto because of the feel, the balance feels different from other swords I've handled which were Shinto.