MASAHIRO UCHIGATANA? SOSHU?

[Valjhun]

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]

Gents! Any comments?

[kisak]

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]

I guess thatone never had a yokote. :confused:

[kisak]

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.