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  1. Great looking sword, a fine addition to any collection of Nihonto.
  2. THanks for the info guys, and I will let him know. How you been Devil Dog? Might need to check your reserve status as the Corps is getting ready here at Lejeune! If anyone is interested in it let me know and I'll put you both in contact. Best regards, Bob
  3. A friend of mine sent me pics this morning of a tsuba he bought at his local flea. Guessing under $100. I told him I'd post it up for the pros to comment on. It does not look anything like Juyo to me but tsuba's are a tricky business. Best regards, Bob
  4. Thanks for the taking the time to translate for me Steve! Appreciate it!
  5. Thanks, Jacques! The chiseler for the gimei had better looking kanji than Oya himself!
  6. Got a call from the bunker downtown to look at a couple swords that dropped in. One was a common army parade, but the beat up wak may be a legit Oya Kunisada. Mei kinda looks like a couple in Sesko's meikan from the early 1630's. Anyway who knows. The blade under all the age staining looks to be flaw free. Tsuba is signed but cannot make heads or tails from the signature or if it is noteworthy in any tsuba characteristic collectors notice. Thanks for looking! Best regards, Bob
  7. Now that is a sword! Please post some before pics of the blade. Is the story interesting on how you acquired it?
  8. Jean, thanks for the tip! I did look at it with 10x headset on and most if not all is "spider rust" I haven't seen this before, but I usually buy blades with much more rust and discoloration!
  9. Nihontophiles, I ended up with this sword, here are a few closeups of Nagahide's work for future people looking up this smith's work. Sword is machi-okuri for WW2 mounts. Forging is interesting with interesting metallurgy and flaws. The second pics shows these cloudy areas which I am unsure of it being a forging characterics or some sort of age stain?
  10. 1895.] A Japanese Sword-Song. 795 A Japanese SWORD-SONG. “ Loyalty to m y lord, and vengeance upon m y lord’s slayer.” — Old Japanese Motto. (Hush , listen — my Soul, my Sword !) Is he near, the Fox that skulks And kills in the dark, unseen ? Shall we, too, hide and strike In the dark a foe unclean ? Brave deeds are done in the day. Sun God, give me steel for sight, War God, give me arm of steel To avenge the deed of night. (His life for life of my lord.) (Hush, listen — my Soul, my Sword !) Not molten with toil of days Was the steel of your fashioning, But with labor of strenuous years, And the steel was a living thing. Through your eager, thirsting veins The red drops hissing ran, Pure blood of a fiery Soul, Proud spirit of a Man. (His life for life of my lord.) (Hush, listen — my Soul, my Sword !) You writhe in my grasp, my Own — He is near, the Fox we snare ! You lift your quivering length, One moment — one chance — if he dare ! The blood that is in you gleams Wicked red, with flashes of light —- Now, Sword, my Soul, cleave clean ! Revenge is new life, new sight! (His life for life of my lord.) (Hush, listen — my Soul, my Sword !) Am I, too, wounded to death ? What matter ? My foot can spurn His body, the Fox that skulked, That killed in the dark. I earn Remembrance for loyal love, For vengeance unto the death — And this is a glorious way For a man to yield his breath. (His life for life of my lord.) Mary Stockton Hunter.
  11. Very healthy blade with better than average fittings, I would be happy to own it! Good candidate for submission for papers down the road.
  12. Ben, Make plans to visit sword shops in Japan and attending a few of the sword shows here in the states ASAP! It doesn't hurt to buy fixer uppers to learn a bit from as a catch and release type of event. My preference after getting bitten 15 years or so ago, is buyng Nihonto with healthy blades in good old polish that can be papered if I desire.
  13. Tanker with regulation sword. I thought it was a pretty good pic of a reg sword.
  14. I think so Bruce, It lets the handle line up with the mekugi ana. Going to put it in my booth with a Japanese flyers outfit, should look good together.
  15. Fellas, Picked up this oddball from a online auction because it's something different and the leather garbed swords always gets me! Never seen a kinnuto in field fittings almost a last ditch piece, whaddaya think Bruce?
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