Stefan

Sig. is  Fuyuhiro saku. Sue  Koto . 

Typical  Keicho-suriage. therfore the blade is earlier than keicho. If  we  see  the  original sugata ( simply  foll the  line  of the mune  up to the point of suriage ) we will have  an strong saki-sori. Middle to late muromachi.

Can  not see the hamon or the jihada. From  the first  impression i would say  mino, but  I do not see enough  to confirm.

Sandai Tanba  Yoshimichi

Shinshinto, cleary by sugata etc . Bizen ?  There is one  fine  point in the  kitae to see the Yokoyama. The  swirl  like  Yokoyama  kitae, an whirlpool mixture  of  moku and itame. in ko-hada format. Bo utsuri in  Yokoyama, not so unusual. Seen  on  Sukekane and so on. Suguha dito.

The double machi miracle, are  Youre  joking ? That is not original, that is  machiokuri in gruseome style.

Please  keep in mind. Every nakago has an minimal nakago funbari. If this is gone, than something is wrong.

To  jugdge  the quality of this  piece higher than  Rai Kunitoshi, well; some say  chemical  pear  aroma  is better than the original pear.

By the way, Yokoyama  Kitae  is not  Yamashiro hada, An nie utsuri in bo formation is not the same  as an bo utsuri in  normal form. The  ko  nie-deki of Yokoyama  ist not  to compare with the elegant nie of Rai. 

The great  differance  in quality  is the balance between the elements.

In these terms, there are worlds  between Kunitoshi and Nanabo Yokoyama.

Sorry  for the , probably  harsh words, but sometimes study together is  an hard time, isn it ?

Each sword  is worth what  some one  is willed to pay. It is not  the  job  of the seller to do the  homework for the buyer. 

Late Sue Koto. Sugata is neither Kanbun, Keicho, Keian, Genroku or what so ever.

The  nakago is sligjtly machi okuri, please see the nakogo funbari  by example. 

Hamon, Looks  like the typical Sue-Mino mixture, but not the typical  Kanemoto-Style.

Bad  news  first. the blade is gimei. the shape is wrong, the  horimono  is  not  in the  Kotetsu manner.  The  hori is of  no good  quality. -Atobori ? I do not konw. Signature  looks  also bad.

Goode news : The  F.K  are  realy  good, i would think  early  hamano.

Rai  utsuri is mostly nie-utsuri, not only  bo. I never seen  a copy  by  Kanesada  etrc with nie utsuri, only  with  shirake or simple bo.

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Hm  Looks like an  very late Shinto or early Shinshintio blade. All the other things  I can not tell. I can see nor the hamon or the Jihada. There is  a hardend portion, but the real hamon, nie / nio , i can not see.

If You want to know what  Yo do have, madoake, openeing a window. Means  polishing a small section of the sword.

This way is much cheaper than a full polish for the whole sword.

Stefan

It is  Kamuri Otoshi. Blade  quality is pretty low. .Slight scratches, O.K, it is out of any  polish. To discuss any signatures in this state...no.

By the way, i am not sure if the boshi is there. The polish is to crude.

Wow, how did the great polish ? The uzumaki is  jumping  in  my eye.

Stefan

Well,  I am  the  last candle  on the cake, my big  brother  is much older. Therefore, no family to give it.

My  library as my collection I will give to a museum. The Samurai Art Museum  in Berlin. Why ? It is a  private collection, open to the public. I  do think, fine pieces  of art should not be hidden.

The other  possessions, well they  go  another way.

Well, if  I  become  pretty  ill  bevor my death, it will take a lot  of money, than  i am forced to sell.

But  I hope, that  god has mercy and  let me  go in peace.

At  the  moment, i am  in good health. I  do hope that  will be the  future for a long time.

A fine piece, no doubt.

Stefan

I am sorry, but  I am smiling. In  my beginnings I ve  been taught "Do not  buy signatures, do not  buy  papers, jugde the sword itself"

Well now, I am  sitting here  at my writing desk and i see that we will  go back to the beginnings.

Last time  we reached this point in the eighties, after  all the fuss about  the  Yakuza papers.

I am  pretty sure in the  not  to far  future, the  paper game will start again.

So  dear friends, one more round and cheerio to the believe in authoritarians  

May be we have to define the swords and markets

 

0 -- 5000 € low end, no papers, bad condition, no polish...

5000 - 15000 € medium, papered, good condition, ( old) polish

15000 - 50000 € good, TH or Juyo papered, flawless very good condition, good polish

50000- 250000 € very good to exellent, Juyo and Tokuju papers, extraordinary textbook condition, exellent polish by high ranking polisher

for the really top end swords there is no presence in the western markets. A Hagenbusch or Piech collection wasn't seen on official western markets, 90 % did go go a calm way back to Japan..

 

Best

Just a few Moments ago I saw a Naoe-Shizu Ko-Katana witrh Koshirae, Blade TH . Price ? 5000 $. Severral days ago a Satsuma Shinto Katana with  Koshirae for 6000, also TH The normal Price for Wakizashi with T.H. 4000-5500 etc. Tanto even less.

Nobody will  pay  your  prices at the moment  Peter. The  Prices are in the cellar,  buisness is down. God time for buying, hard times for sellers.

Goto Mitsu ?

19 th century. the text deals with  the history of this man which began, fas as i understand in 1816 ( Bunka  13 ). 

Stefan
 

Shinshinto, not  good  quality. Yasutsugu, no. Masamune, never ever. Deki does not match.

I do hope  it was not  to expensive.

Stefan

Hakogaki 

Right colum : Den Nara

Left one  : Middle Edo 

Stefan

Wow, a ruined blade. Nice  acid polish. I do hope the  aoko was  not  to expensive..............

Stefan

Where is the problem.

You ve made an mistake as we all do from time to time.

So what.

Don´t worry about that.

Greetings from Germany

Stefan

 I do think an nice video about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6gZwdAgV9w

Hm, during  oer  30 years in the fields  of  nihonto  i learned :First  jugde the blade, than the signature. If the blade says  no, than it  means nope.

On  the  other  hand,  I ve  seen many stranghe signatures  which  have been  papered by the NBTHK.

Far  as  i can  see, this blade is Sue-Koto Mino.

Sengo, no. i handled three  and  i owned once a Muramasa. but this  one, nope, never ever.

But ! nevertheless,  the blade is nod bad, even  beeing  Gimei.

You re German , therefore : Lieben Dank auch aus meiner Ecke. ich sage meistens nichts dazu, lese es aber  sehr interessiert. Viel. kommst  ja mal nach Berlin ins Museum, Schwerter  gucken.

Stefan

Well, now  I do have  an laugh applicable. My tea is spread over the desk. The best joke  this year.