good morning from new zealand i have read the message board many times and have just joined i have been to Japan twice and plan to go back next year it is a geat place when there i visited tokyo sword and saw for the first time some magic nihonto i tried for about 2 hours or so looking for aoi-art as i view their web site almost daily but do you think that i could find them in the way of street address and yes i did ask some young people i had to givr up in yhe end my main problem in nz is the exchange rate which is not on my side currently i get about 66yen to each of our dollars for the usd it is better at about 76cent to our dollar then we have to pay 15%import duty which we call gst so you can see the problem as well as that there is not much interest in Japanese antiques in nz except for a limited number of people and they are hard to find sorry missed that i spent 14 days in Japan in may june last year would any body list for me who they think would their top 5 to 10 nihonto web sites to look up thank you trevor my e mail is jag8@orcon.net .nz ps i trust that i have not breeched any rules of the message board
