Japanese blacksmith identification.

[lokomilo]

Hello everyone.

I think about the identification of this Japanese blacksmith "igami sadahiro"


Difficult to find him. On the internet there is only one "ikami sadahiro":

https://japaneseswordindex.com/oshigata/sadahir2.jpg

The first Kanji is different: 井神 and not 伊神

In the book of Markus Sesko he identifies several of sadahiro. I need your opinion.

Here is an excerpt from the book.

You can help me on "igami sadahiro".

Thank you very much.

Here are photos of the saber and the excerpt from the book about sadahiro.













Here is the book in question:

http://www.lulu.com/shop/markus-sesk...-22166224.html

[GHP]

Sorry, I also cannot find anyone named Igami Sadaharu. The three Showa-era smiths you show do not have any kanji even remotely related to 井 or 神.

I can help with the silver escutcheon on the kabutogashira:
中原
Nakahara


--Guy

[lokomilo]

Thank you for your reply.

I had the solution by Markus Sesko, the author of this book:

http://www.lulu.com/shop/markus-sesk...-22166224.html

He wrote me:

"The signature reads " Igami Sadahiro" (井神貞弘). That said, the maker seems to be a "little mystery". For example, he signed his name also with the characters (伊神) for "Igami" and I think that it might be the Gifu/Seki-based smith that I have listed in my book which bore the real name Takai Shirō (高井四郎). As his father Sadatsugu bore the family name Takai too, I think that Sadahiro might have change his family name to Igami at a certain point in time which he then wrote in two different ways. But maybe Igami was just a pseudonym. Unfortunately, not much information is known on this smith so maybe we will never know.

Maybe you have heard about my Gendaito Project. I am going to create a free website will all information on Gendaito smiths available. Would you give me the permission to use your pictures for the website later? In this case, I can update information if anything is found in the future.

Best regards,
Markus"


There is a post on this sword here:
http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic...on-blacksmith/