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This blade and fittings are now up for sale as a package deal, and a donation will be made to NMB upon successful sale. Thank you for all your interest and information and time! once again NMB comes through.

Thank you Bruce! I truly appreciate your time and knowledge. If anyone is interested please let me know and just make me a reasonable offer. I will make a donation to NMB, and will put it up officially for sale later today.

DANG Bruce that is great info! So what am I looking at here then? Could you sum it up for me? Thank you for taking the time to answer all of my questions! I'm just looking to ask fair value for it, the person who gifted it to many years ago is estranged from me now for a lot of reasons so I don't wish to own the blade anymore.

Thank you Bruce. That's very helpful to know. I obtained the following measurements: Nagasa 26" Nakago 8.5" Also upon removal of the unmatching habaki and closer examination, I found these on the back half of the nakago on the mune-machi side (that would face in towards the crook of your thumb and forefinger, forgive me if there is a term for this area on the nakago specifically but I do not know it). Can anyone identify them?

I agree completely. This was simply how the sword was given to me, along with a handmade wooden tsuka (nothing good or worth keeping, it was basically just a block of wood taped up). I will take some measurements.

Tsuba and seppa.

I thank you for this information! Very interesting. what is the fair value of something like this? I would like to sell it here at NMB and do not want to ask too much (or too little ha ha).

Hello all, I was gifted this years ago. I have maintained it in approximately the condition it was given to me in, and really have not done anything to it other than keep it from degrading. Anyone have any input on what I'm looking at here? It was discussed a while back on NMB but I don't believe I came up with a solid answer. Sorry, I am struggling a little bit with the forum upload size.

Still for sale, price dropped significantly to 150. Thank you.

I have for sale a very cool hata, which I erroneously attributed as a sashimono initially. It came from an old kura in Japan along with several other items. I purchased it from another NMB member here. It is in good shape despite the age and seems to have been fairly well preserved in the kura. I was unable to track down this particular mon (the eight sided shape in particular is what eluded me) but as I understand it ivy leaves (the leaf in the middle is certainly an ivy leaf) were well known to be associated with the Matsudaira clan or the Shogunate and their various retainer families. Further discussion on it can be found here: http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/19580-sashimono-acquisition/ I am asking $300 via paypal OBO, and price includes shipping and insurance within the continental U.S. Not averse to a partial trade plus cash if you have something I may be interested in? Never hurts to ask. I have no issue shipping it out of country but it may incur a few extra costs for obvious reasons of shipping being more expensive. Please PM me if you have any questions or are interested. Thank you!

Thank you all for the kind compliments and discussion on this blade. It is now sold to another NMB member with payment having been received this afternoon. Once the money has transferred over to my account successfully and the blade has shipped out, I will be making a donation to NMB as promised. Thank you NMB family!

Thank you. I, too, feel this is a good deal. This is getting into "rusted, can't find hamon, in fake WW2 koshirae on ebay" blade prices while being much nicer than those.

Hey my friends, I would like to do one final price drop on this to 700 USD. This price includes shipping and insurance in the continental US. Thank you NMB!

Gorgeous blade.