Japanese
Sword Polishing Photos
Recent Work |
|
|
Detail of a late Koto period katate-uchi signed Fuyuhiro.
Click here to see comments and feedback for this blade!
|
| | |
13 5/8" tanto by Tachibana
Nobutsura with extremely high quality dragon horimono. This was super
tricky. It has some of the most beautiful horimono I've seen.
Every scale is carved out and under cut precisely in three
dimensions. I had to clean and re-burnish each one. Lots of hours
with tooth picks and stone dust and tiny needle burnishers. Click on the image to see online feedback and comments for this blade. |
The opposite side of the Tachibana
Nobutsura tanto. Engraved with Fudo-Myoo "The Immovable".
He sits in flames holding a rope in his left hand to bind evil and a
sword in his right. Click on image to see facebook comments for this blade.
|
| | |
Here is a detail of a sword that I was very proud to work on.
This
is the Wake Island surrender sword, property of the National Museum of
the United States Navy in Washington, DC. This is a WWII era Japanese Naval
Officer's sword. The tag attributes the blade to a Seki smith Kaneshige. This blade
was surrendered by Company Commander Tetsu Matsudaira at Wake Island
and presented to Fleet Admiral William Leahy. Click on the image to see live feedback and comments for this blade on facebook. |
   |
|
Detail of the really great kissaki
(point) on wakizashi I just finished. 21 3/4" length, signed
Yamato Daijo Ujishige. Lots of activity! For more on this blade including feedback and comments click here!
|
Close
up detail photo angled to show the exquisite hada of this katana signed: Bishu Osafune Norimitsu. Dated 1487.
|
Another picture of the 15 3/4"
naginata naoshi wakizashi signed Izumi no Kami Kanesada. Has strong
itame hada (wood grain) going into mokume (burl). Lot of large nie
crystals. A very attractive quality blade overall. Also VERY SHARP! For more information including feedback and comments click here!
|
This
is an osuriage katana
signed Bizen Kuni ju... It has a thick
kasane and a extremely
fine ko-mokume hada. The hamon (temper line) of this blade is
finished in a keisho style.
| Recently finished koto era tanto by
Kanenori. It has a really interesting hamon with series of 5-6 gunome
of uniform height separated by individual shorter gunome. Feedback here!
|
This
is a 16 1/2" mumei o-suriage
wakizashi. This one started out in really bad shape. Had to
completely re-cut the groove. More pictures of this blade
available here!
|
En-po era (1673) katana signed Bungo no
Kami Minamoto Masayasu. 27 1/2" long, o-suriage (shortened).
Finished in a sashikomi style. See this page
for more information on the difference between keisho
and sashikomi finishing.
|
| | |
| | |
|
|
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.
| | 
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
was a full traditional art polish on a huge mumei naginata,
one
of the
most difficult blades to polish!
|
Rex
says: Click on the BEFORE
AND AFTER link for more pictures of newly
polished swords!
|
| Sorry,
I can't update these pages more often, but it takes a lot of time and I'm busy polishing.
^_^
See hundreds of swords and
feedback from clients and fans around the world on my facebook page http://www.facebook.com/swordpolish.
It is a lot easier to upload new
photos to my facebook page, so it gets updated a lot more frequently
with a lot more content. You should be able to view all of
the
albums,
even if you don't have a facebook account. If you have
trouble
viewing, make sure your browser is allowing facebook cookies.
Email: davidhofhine@att.net
|
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
  
Copyright
David Hofhine, Kensei LLC
|
