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Aged repro to me.

Another good product is the Nivea cream. Works well on aged leather, with no blackening effect.

My humble addition to this topic. Long wakizashi (57 cm) in wooden saya, leather covered, brass koiguchi. Notice the peculiar style of press studs.

Yes, I can validate. Reliable seller 👍 Again, congrats for your gorgeous kai.

Very, very nice! By the chance, did you get it from an Italian guy?

Is this variety already seen/common?

The blade:

Hoping my sword falls in this category, here we have a mumei Uda blade, in an early 98 koshirae (perhaps from Kakenu shop).

Another interesting point: the same is in full wrap style. The seam is roughly at 11 o' clock (mune side).

About the ito wrapping, I noticed that all the tsuka posted here have the criss-cross pattern just over the menuki done in the kai gunto style. It would seem an hallmark of this maker.

Hi Trystan; do you have a pic of the nakago ana area of this tsuka? Maybe the same maker?

Hi Bryce; no, the habaki hasn't any stamp. It's a siver-foiled one, and I think is older than koshirae. The blade is actually pretty old: a mumei Uda that I will post soon.

Thanks, invaluable infos 🙌

Thanks Steve 👍

Hi all; I resurrect this aged post because (thanks to Steve) I stumbled across this very same maker's signature on my 98 koshirae. Also some features are superimposable (i.e. silver push button/chuso). Only difference is that the numbers on metal parts are in western style. Hope this would add something.