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Appraisal Quiz

Answer previous answer was Dewa no kami Yukihiro

1: Koitame hada well grained with jinie attach like Konuka hada.
2: He used Holland steal so often for making sword.
And sometimes he mentioned on the tang about this with proud.
3:Niedeki round shaped hamon on the top and also thick nie between hamon to hamon.
Nakago is typical Yukihiro shape.

 

Appraisal Quiz #14 (9.26.2008)

Who made this sword do you think ?

 

Hint:

Blade length : 23.6 cm or 9.29 inches.
Sori : 0 cm or 0 inches.
Mekugi: 1
Width at the hamachi : 1.99 cm or 0.78 inches.
Kasane : 0.43 cm or 0.16 inches.

Shape : The blade is regular sized Uchizori shape.
Jitetsu :Itame nad Ooitame and also Oomokume hada convined with a lot of jinie thickly.
There are a lot of Chikei work activity along with texture.

Hamon : Koniedeki suguha with chikei not clear between Hamon and Jigane. In Ha, a lot of vivid Kinsuji scatter come to be Inazuma style.
The most important points are Uchizori shaped Tanto.
Ooitame hada with a lot of Chikei along with hada(texture).
In Ha, fantastic long kinsuji and inazuma.

 

 

 

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