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Chris, It's Sane. If you can give me a better close up I can check the last. EDIT: Might be Sanemori... /Martin

Hello, I have an Ubu Satsuma Nagamaki, this could be a shortened one. /Martin

Hello, As you can see on the image and on the chisel strokes: The NAGA character was probably original and the third character made with another tool at another time. The second character was removed hours before the third. EDIT: Looking some more at the image...there could be one character below the NAGA. /Martin

Hello, New info to this thread/request. I received paper for this knife now. The paper gives me more headache, but hopefully it is clarification to anyone of you out there. Papers state: 平安城 助房 Heianjo Sukefusa Musashi – Heianjo Ishido Sukefusa 平安城石堂助房, Heianjo-ju Sukefusa nanban-tetsu o motte kore o tsukuru 平安城住助房以南蛮鉄造之 Any ideas for more info? /Martin

I will post some pictures as soon as I get it safely home. There will be a polish and I don't know the time window for that. Thx for all the responses and help here. /Martin

Hello again, I read the paper now. It is attributed to Naganori@Eikyō 1429-1441. http://nihontoclub.com/smiths/NAG83 Nori it was, Jacques. /Martin

Curran, According to the papers it is an attribution. Thanks for the hints! /Martin

I know, but I'm sorry. The blade is in Japan for Kanteisho. It was released today. Next issue for me is to decide whether I will have it polished or not. /Martin

Ok guys, I got the paperwork and the attribution was: 吉井 Does it make any sense? Any known documentation of signing only Osafune of Yoshii? /Martin

Tobubetsu Kicho Paper? /Martin

Jean, Can you post some images? I tried to post some of mine, but I got some errors. Trying again this afternoon. /Martin

Hello, Maybe? [attachment=0]MUNENAGA.JPG[/attachment] If you can add the complete nakago it would help. /Martin

Ok, It looks like an obscured character below. Obscured by age or removed by greed. /Martin

Marcello, It's KANE and it looks to be a character below. /Martin

Thanks for the comments! Sebastien, Handed in for papering - Let's see what will come out of that. I hope it doesn't say Osafune : ) Chris, A very good guess. Did not think of that at all. Good input. Jacques, No pictures yet. As I don't have the sword here. I also think it is an interesting object to study. /Martin

BREAKING NEWS First of all, thanks you for the support, images and thoughts of mind. Second, I resubmitted the blade with a letter of the gathered information from my research and your posts. Third, Hozon was issued. Thanks for the support. /Martin

A duffer from a hawker. /Martin

Jean, Can you show an example of a "typical" handachi tsuba? /Martin

Hello all, I have a sword what appears to be signed only with: 長船 - OSAFUNE A rough dating by feel, shape and characeristics would be between 1300-1400 and to be more precise it leans towards MUROMACHI. Only an early guess. Kissaki: KO/IKUBI Sori: 1.4cm as SURIAGE/at least 2.1 in its original form Tachi Mei: 長船 Naga: 54.5cm/at least 61cm I'm trying to determine: 1. age of the blade 2. possible maker Initial questions: A. Are the known swords that was signed only with 長船? B. I have consulted books and internet. Does anyone here have some more input? I will post some pictures later. /Martin

Hello, I have a Kanda Kanetsune myself. An uncleaned tang with a nice blade along with paper. If the buyer does not want yours. Please refer him to me. You will get a percentage :-) /Martin

Jean, Thank you. The Acro-Iris page was excellent for me. A few schools I can detect easy, but this was an eye opener. /Martin

Jean, Thanks - I don't enjoy whiskey, but I got the point ( : I did search for "Goto Tsuba" and obviously many results. Checking the images I found one Tsuba that I recognised from my collection. Is this a Mino-Goto or a "real"? [attachment=0]products_1154_1_medium.jpg[/attachment] I will try to find some more info. /Martin

Brian, What is real Goto? What is the difference between Mino-Goto and the other? /Martin

Ok guys, Now I will make a statement : ) Star stamped blades were only used as a mark which the army used for as an approval. Like a NATO-number used on equipment today. Both traditionally made blades and non-traditional blades would be used in the army. Those OK'ed got a stamp. Correct or incorrect statement? /Martin

I hope this is not deleted nor locked. I have 2 questions unanswered and follow-up questions to the answers. /Martin