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10th January 2012, 05:02 PM
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I have several nihonto, but am functionally useless when it comes to translating kanji. Koto on the other hand has translated the mei... the osujikai file marks through me a little, though my hands-on exposure is limited enough that it means relatively little when a feature on a nihonto catches my eye as "odd"... Nice blade either way. I'm guessing the shirasaya is contemporary... or at least not original to the katana. |
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11th January 2012, 07:59 AM
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Kono thanks for the translation, Yoshiomi does sound familiar, I think that is what I was told the maker was.
The shirisaya is much newer than the sword, maybe at most 15 years old. Mybe next time I am home I'll take some pictures of the certificate and then we'll know more. A quastion to anyone who'd know this. Does any one know of a person who'd be able to properly clean the resharpen this baby? In southern United States?? |
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11th January 2012, 05:43 PM
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Are you willing to wait the better part of a year? Anyway, given the cost of polishing, I would suggest first researching the value of this smith's work to make sure it would be worth the investment of a professional polish... Here's one that sold in December, signed Yoshiomi and in koshirae: http://militariawwii.com/ww2-japanes...-signed-beauty This singular example could be a statistical outlier, but from my own (albeit limited) experience, for each nihonto I have owned that is worth the cost of a polish, I have owned at least one that was not. FWIW, I have had success with Noxon 7. It is a polishing agent, but an individual known to me - who has bought and sold more nihonto than I will ever see - swears by the stuff as the only metal polish that he considers to be safe for nihonto. Gentle-to-moderate pressure* with a soft cloth... I've been able to remove a fair amount of oxidation similar to what appears on your example, and it will enhance the visibility of the hamon assuming there is one. Either way, a nice gendaito... 
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18th January 2012, 08:57 AM
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Nice bit of info on here, about the Noxon 7, do you have pics with the results?
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19th January 2012, 04:05 AM
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http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=11616 I'll make it a point to take an "after" pic of the reverse over the week when time permits and post it.
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19th January 2012, 04:43 PM
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I've been searching around the net, trying to find more information about the Seki smith Yoshiomi. All of the ones I have found resemble more to the pic in this post, and none to what I have. Plus all other Seki swords have the stamp which mine does not. Just wondering, what is the deal, could it be that there was another Yoshiomi, or someone else with a similar name who made this, or is it common that the same maker marks different swords differently?
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19th January 2012, 05:15 PM
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I have three oshigata of Yoshiomi, all Seki smiths, but the signatures look somewhat different. Many Seki factories employed mei carvers, so a blade by a particular smith could have very different looking signatures depending on which mei carver signed it.
http://home.earthlink.net/~ttstein/index.htm Rich S |
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