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Take a look on that very nice Kanemoto blade.

 

http://www.ebay.de/itm/HJ-58-KATANA-KANEMOTO-BladeLength-63-6cm-25inch-/322900963897

 

If it is a real nihonto why it is showa stamped? And why is a registered showa blade in Japan?

 

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/GyoAAOSwsFpaF7l5/s-l1600.jpg

 

Could that be a gendai blade?

 

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And for Kanemoto read Kanenao, the seller confirms this at the very bottom of the listing.  Perhaps the Kanemoto in inverted commas is meant to suggest an association or just that it is Seki school.

Actually, it looks much more like Asano Kanesane so have a look here, https://www.japaneseswordindex.com/kanezane.htm

 

All the best.

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If they have then I have not heard about it and perhaps some of our members resident in Japan can enlighten us.   I have noted that Aoi sometimes get around the regs by saying that a blade is a metal tsunagi, I'm sure that some others simply do not know or bother about the rules.  I have seen quite a lot of rule bending here in the UK when it comes to selling swords, I suppose that the same is possible in Japan.

 

All the best.

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The law wasn’t changed, it’s just that some toroku-shinsa teams don’t know it fully. So far all licenseses for shōwatō I’ve seen were issued by provincial Boards of Education – like in this case, it’s from Hyōgo prefecture.

 

BTW, IMO the sword in question shows clear signs of being oil quenched; it has a pencil-thin (kind of nioi’ish) habuchi, and the typical ragged peaks.

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