Stephen

good point Bugs

works now, Kanetada is the smith

what happend to the pic???

not sure here but some memory banks are firing up the eight heavens,,,,sure somebody...er Nobody will take me down the right path. Deva (Jp. = Tenbu) - Protectors of Buddhist Law, Japanese Bu... 八方天The eight heavens and devas at the eight points of the compass: E., the Indra, or Śakra heaven; S., the Yama heaven; W., the Varuna, or water heaven; ... http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/tenbu-top.shtml - 86k - Similar pages

some good deals here folks, the two Hawley sell for twice the starting price and the small book has gendai smiths and alot of info the big brown book is lacking, + a great deal on Tanobei sensei's book.

Jock I moved this to the new Translation section, you may not have seen its arrival. Smith is Yoshifusa, you should be able to do the date if you have a Yumoto book...give it a try.

If you look at the pix the nakago also has a kiku flower above the mei,...this could be a good blade, yall might want to dig out your books on this, may be second or third gen??? RK2) Rai Kinmichi, 2nd generation, 1620, Yamashiro, wazamono, Izumi (no) Kami Rai Kinmichi 和泉守æ¥é‡‘é“, Fujiwara Rai Kinmichi 藤原æ¥é‡‘é“, Daihoshi Hokyo Rai Kinmichi 大法師法橋æ¥é‡‘é“, Daihoshi Hokyo Rai Eisen 大法師法橋æ¥æ „泉. On 5/6/1616, he received the title of "Izumi (no) Kami". Used kiku mon and eda kiku mon which is a kiku flower with branches, together with his mei on nakago. Produced gunome hamon. mei looks kinda close dont ya think

this was linked before, it looks like it was a daisho setup that was broke up, large small F/K kogai kozuka all with the dragonfly motif, did not take time to give them a good look the frist time...shame that it was all not sold in a lot.

you want high prices, check these out, keep your mitts off the Munetsugu thats my dream swrord...only around 100K....lol. http://www.token-net.com/zyuyo.htm#b Munetsugu http://www.token-net.com/juyotoken/juyo ... ugu-1.html

Hey in polish it might be a real sleeper, I know that has another meaning down under but here it means a diamond in the ruff. Its long too.... someone going to have a good Iaido blade me thinks :lol:

What no tsuba???

IMHO its not junk and can be talked about here, like Brian said its the type of polish, in fact in the right hands of a togi id would look very good.

im sure this is a copy, mei looks stamped.

Looks like im going to have to give up prosliver if we keep getting post in red and green...very hard to read

Grey in prosliver the new post show in red and say new, the problem im having other not hearing back from PM's is each time i get a question or PM from someone useing Nihonto black gets me bummped off and i have to log in then when i do it takes me back to prosliver hope this all works out soon

Barry Be sure to take pix lots of pix of tables and folks at the show, have fun in the land of Sun. wheres the icon smilies for envy

Its the same as the brown book, only seen one or two like it ...at a good price now.

Austin the link does not open for me...how about using the boards downloading.

Paul Thanks for your interpretation of the slogan, very interesting, well wait until others have a chance to post their take on it.

was wondering if we could move these up or somewhere so when you go to this section one does not have scroll down to see a new thread or does it not bother anyone else? Topics Replies Views Last post Interesting book, article and .pdf downloads by Brian on Sun Jan 20, 2008 5:48 am 0 Replies 27 Views Last post by Brian on Sun Jan 20, 2008 5:48 am Fraud Warning by Darcy on Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:26 pm 10 Replies 2588 Views Last post by sencho on Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:04 am You Tube Nihonto by Paul Martin on Fri May 11, 2007 11:46 am 5 Replies 1498 Views Last post by FraGRINtWoOkiE on Wed Sep 26, 2007 5:20 pm Benefic Auction by Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini on Fri Oct 13, 2006 12:04 pm 5 Replies 1752 Views Last post by Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini on Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:37 am Guidelines for General Discussion posting by Brian on Sat Oct 28, 2006 2:01 am 0 Replies 637 Views Last post by Brian on Sat Oct 28, 2006 2:01 am guess there all stickys??

Wheres Bugsy?? second over from banner pole center row?

Pires, yes type in your answer, Nobody-san knows it and wanted to give others a chance, so have at it.

for the new board try your skills on this mei give your answer in Japanese and traslation in English Kudos to the first to get it right, no cheating!

the Historical museum in Des Moines if its traveling, not as big venue but they do have some swords of their own. I ID'd them a few years back, there was talk about showing them but it never came to be.

that was from a Sadakatsu i had on file...its not to say its shoshin for sure.