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Valjhun 10th May 2009 09:46 PM
MASAHIRO UCHIGATANA? SOSHU?
 
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I've bought that sword recently. The blade seems poor condition, but is the signature from the great master Masahiro from Soshu, KAMAKURA era blade?

Valjhun 14th May 2009 03:18 PM
Gents! Any comments?

kisak 14th May 2009 03:41 PM
My guess is that the polish, or rather lack thereof, makes it rather difficult to make a proper assessment.

As the yokote is gone, perhaps someone's tried to touch it up a bit? Hopefully any such attention won't have resulted in any permanent damage.

Valjhun 14th May 2009 06:54 PM
I guess thatone never had a yokote. :confused:

kisak 15th May 2009 02:26 PM
To my eyes, it seems you can rather see where the yokote should have been. A shobu zukuri blade would probably have had a more gradual transition into the kissaki area. And neither hada nor hamon appears to be visible here.


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