Stefan

I can  only agree

Regarding the kozuka, PN send.

Stefan

Hawaii ? Just ask Bob Benson or Woody Hall. They can teach you.

In front of buying. learning.

Das freut mich echt für dich Peter !

Wirklich schönes Schwert.
Gruß

Stefan

Seems to be a name.

Wada ?

Greets

Stefan

Kanekage,

Probably Mino Sue Koto.

Greets Stefan

Nice blade. The  signature is gimei in my  opinion. The rust does not  look natural. I think  the  kanji were added at a later date.

Greetings

Stefan

Well done !

Stefan

Echizen Daijo Tadayuki ?

Greets

Stefan

Gimei Norimitsu.

A joke ? This blade is  poor  workmanship for  KIyondo.The Price...

By the way, an closed ware is not an forging flaw

I do not think that this is a side to learn from. The explanation of "boshi" is funny enough and storytelling.

"http://www.japaneseweapons.com/katana/shurui/english.htm"

Even the comment  on blade tips , great. Nanki Shigekuni is Shinshin-To.

Greets

Stefan

It is a minature sankaku yari. Shinto-period.

Greets

Stefan

Made my day.....

I see that I do see nothing. No pics ?

But not quite upto Chogi's work...

Naturally not, but nevertheless  it has been  a fine blade.

Why to shorten  an shinshinto blade. Well it must look like koto simply in order to achieve an higher selling price.

I did have  the honour  to handle an Hosoda Naomasa ( brother  of Kajihei ) blade. For the  untrained eye ? Wow ! Nambokucho three times shortend. The  Saya-Gaki did say "Chogi". A forgery in the sweetest Soden-style.

Nevertheles, a good blade.

Two Utsuri ?

I do not think so. It is either a problem of the polish or the  result  of the construction of the blade. In my point  of vie the first one is the case.

Often one  finds "utsuri" near the shinogi. In those cases the  lazy polisher did not  use the  jitsuya enough near the shinogi in fear to disturb it.

A similar effect is true in the  cases of the migaki-ji in the shinogiji.

I ve seen this many times.

I  did also work  with Mr. Doffin. Perfect  comunication, perfect service. Simply great.

Unfotunately my funds are not  great enough to by seriously in his book candy-shop. So many seldom and fine books in prestine conditon...

Very nice find ! A good Koto blade.

Shikkake with Sakisori ? In the later works the feature dimished.

Why not Mino ? I ve seen  this several times before on such blades.

No Stefan,

the gap in the stamp above is caused by the thickness of the glued in picture.

Regards

O.K. I see.  Than only  one  question : Why is the stamp  longish an not ident with the other one.

Probably a stupid  question, but after seeing to many fake  papers  i am pretty  nitpicking about such details.

The  strange sori is O.K for shinto Takada. I did  own an Tadayuki wakizashi with the same features.

I do think that the  green paper is fake. Please take a close look on the stamp above the  nakago photo. It should have the exakt same  dimensions as the

stamp below the name of the  society. If my  old eyes are not  playjng a trick to me, the  stamp over the  nakago is more  longish and it is broken. There seems to be a gap.

Oh, stupidity. Here in Berlin we did  have  funny times. Before the "Wende" ( political turn ) ( 1989 ) weapons  were not allowed. Antiques, yes..

Some of  our custom officers took old Nihonto as weapons and voila, they broke the blade tip to make it blunt.....

No , I am not  joking.