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Sword Polishing Photos Recent Work |
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This
27 1/2" osruiage blade signed Echizen Kuni ju Kaneyoshi with double
grooves on both sides polished in a sashikomi style. This
blade has 4 peg holes and was originally 6 1/2" longer! See the Before and After page for more pictures of this blade. This
was a pretty tricky polish because of the bad pitting rust in the
grooves. Also, this type of sashikomi finish is actually more
difficult to do well than the more typical keisho style finish.
See this page
for more information on the difference between keisho
and sashikomi finishing.
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This
is a
27 3/8" katana signed Oite Toto Kato Tsunahide tsukuru kore. Dated Bunka ju
ni
nen hachi gatsu hi or August of 1815. See the Before and After page for more pictures of this blade. |
This
is a 28 1/2" katana signed Takuyo Ichijo ju Fujiwara Kunihiro.
A
big thick wide blade with full bohi signed by the big Horikawa
Kunihiro,
but signature is gimei. Very good strong blade with good quality in it.
Its an
Osaka shinto blade made by a good smith.
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Opposite side of the same blade. |
20 3/4" wakizashi signed
Nagasone Okisato Nyudo Kotetsu. The reverse
is signed "ju to Azan Oshioka hen" which means "living around Oshioka
in western Azan". This blade has a ko-itame hada and an
unusual
gunome hamon. |
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Nagasone
Okisato Nyudo Kotetsu, full view with the tsuka and tsuba attached.
Nakago
and detail of some of the exceptional koshire for this blade.
It
has NBTHK Tokubetsu Kicho papers dated 1961. There is some
question as to the authenticity of this paper and the attribution of
this blade. |
This is an osuriage katana
signed Bizen Kuni ju... It has a thick kasane and a extremely
fine ko-mokume hada.
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This
is an authentic
Dotanuki school katana as made famous in the Japanese manga, "Lone Wolf
and Cub". It is signed Higo Dotanuki Munehiro and dated
Ten-po ju
nen san gatsu nichi, being “a day in the third month of the 10th year
of Ten-po” or March, 1839. This blade is polished in a
sashikomi
style to best present the togariba hamon which gets quite high and
pointy in places. This is a later Dotanuki
blade which is much more refined than the Dotanuki blades produced
during the koto period.
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This
was a full traditional art polish on a huge mumei naginata,
one of the
most difficult blades to polish!
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Rex
says: Click on the BEFORE AND AFTER link for more pictures of newly
polished swords!
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Kensei LLC
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I can't update these pages more often, but it takes a lot of time to
get
good close up images of blade details and I'm busy polishing. ^_^ |
Please note,
the blades featured on this web site
are not currently in
my possession, do not belong to me and are not for sale as far as I
know. An
absolute minimum number of blades (usually just one or two unmounted
and unpolished) are kept on
hand at all times to minimize liability. -David Hofhine
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