Stephen

First off it needs to be oiled now, does look to be a older sword and as stated value can only be guessed at out of hand but the nakgao must be seen to get it into a fare value ballpark for the lady.

Yes some mistakes in The Samurai Sword by Yumoto....still a good primer IMHO

Is that from a early F&G he may be from the Yoshichika group Yoshichika Ke (良近) The following smiths are members of the Yoshichika group: 1. Yoshichika (良近) 1.1. Nidai Yoshichika (良近) 1.2. Sukeyuki (介之) 1.3. Kiyonosuke (神之助) 1.4. Yoshiharu (義治) above from the Tokyo Kindai tosho index http://home.earthlink.net/~steinrl/tokyosmi.htm also from Hawleys little blue book, Yoshiharu...your kanji.... Tottori Modern Dean Natl. Tech. school Y0 849a big brown YOS 1407 still not 100% its haru at the time F&G thought it such.

everything is wrong with it. from deep sori to cheap fittings, study study study.

date is zodiac Showa Kinoe-saru haru or 1944 smiths first kanji is Yoshi...? maybe omi?

Ian could it be Fudo?

that would be the edo happy face

the angle of the pix is hard to read i think is Kane or yoshi shige. date may be showa ju hachi or 1943, it has a seki stamp so mods need to move to MSofJ thread. nice clean kai-gunto

And the beat goes on.....lada da da dee

yea lets split them up...as my thread had nothing to do with PN

A week or so ago i recived a wak for a good friend in the UK...nippon would not send....it was marked handi craft....works for me.

looks to have same activity as mine.

I have a Tsuguhiro wak that was looked at a Japanese buyer at a show in Tampa years ago..he thought there was more than two gen...and thinking mine was a later one. mei for comparing

What book is that, Stephen? https://www.paragonbook.com/html/browse ... 3&group=4& Mon: The Japanese Family Crest Hawley, W.M. & Chappelear, Kei Kaneda Item # 11750 ISBN 0910704937

Think its in the style of Paulownia mon.

first off, you dont ever find out whats under the wraping unless it in need of full repair. Your last photo made me do a double take, the carpet pile took me aback thinking you had large chips in the kissaki..looking back at other pix i was very happy to see it in tack. The blade looks older than WW2 with the leather cover on the saya added at that time. think we'll need to see more activity of the blade...looks to have shallow hamon, we might be able to pinpoint the school from it. Nice of you to keep to pass along. Keep a light coat of oil on it.

id guess you got it free with buying something else...or a mear pence

Or just get a grip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b_P879E ... re=related

i sent a email asking where he got my email address...not heard back.

if i had your pocket money for a month i could afford a trip to Nippon. :lol:

with that many hits of board members he must be harvesting EM addresses from here.

wondering if any others on the board recived this letter. funny part is in the from to list my email address was not listed. con or on the up and up? Hi, forgive me if I'm sending this the wrong address, I was given a couple of emails of people who might be interested in my collection so if that doesn't include you please disregard. I have many, many antiques from Japan. I lived over there for 6 years while in the Navy and became a certifiable antique lunatic, most all of my free time was spent combing through dingy, dusty antique shops and the occasional shrine sale, so all the items I have are authentic, at least when examined by real collectors, that is their impression, E.G. I went to the Spokane antiques roadshow and the items I took were appraised accordingly. Here's a partial list, let me know what you might be interested in seeing a photo of and I'll email you. Edo period ( At least 150 years old) Samurai full body armor set Many miniature armor displays Samurai full body armor set, parade quality, showa era probably 20-30 yrs old a complete military fireman's firesuit, including helmet, jacket, inner coat, pouch and tool (this is impossible to find complete, you nearly always just see the helmet or the coat. I happened upon this museum quality find in a tiny shop hardly bigger than a walk in closet) most likely early showa or taisho Many lacquer sets, one dating back to bunsei or around 1825 Other lacquer plates and items Fukagawa, kutani porcelain A spectacular 4 panel intricately carved wood panel with a lotus in the center, approximately 200 years old, most likely from a Buddhist temple Arita/Imari Jingasas An imperial Navy Admiral's dress hat set with shoulder boards and epaulets Tansu Kakejiku/scrolls smaller cloisonne mirrors and many, many many other items. Let me know your interests, I may have something you like. Thanks for your time Shawn Tyler

Help! someone stop the rust on the blade, at least get some oil on it. im sure the mei experts will jump in but i cant see the chippy style being a real thing, did he Guys?

thought we were helping ppl to translate more on there own, fujiwara is easy one to learn as well as saku kore, try a bit harder next time and youll get a warm fuzzy feeling when you learn it on your own.