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  1. Hi! I recently visited Paris and went to all of the above mention places.' The Guimet museum had a couple of blade, a dozen tsuba and an armour on display. The Musée de l’Armée (Les invalides) had ca 8 armours and a couple of blades of different periodes. I also went to the shop espace4 - They where very helpful and gladly let me inspect their nihonto and fittings. They sat me down in a sofa and brought out nice blades after the other. Top service and customer friendly. There is also a litle antique shop at the Louvre antique center with a litle of everything Japanese related. there was blades, fittings, armours, bow and arrows , matchlocks etc. Tip! I you like Japanese culture there is a book store in the reception erea on the Japanese culture center near the eiffel tower. They had all sorts of books on Japanese cooking, art, history, martial arts, nihonto, architecture, language and fiction. most of the books is in french, but many in english as well. I bought several nihonto related books there. sincerely Trygve
  2. Hello Darcy! Your efforts to share your knowledge and your high end nihonto throuh articles, posts, photo and a very good webpage have been very helpful for fellow nihonto students. I am looking forward to buy the rest of the books, as the first Bizen book was a plesaure to read and study. Since Rich stein started this forum you have posted some of the most interessting reads on this subject on the web. "Photographing Nihonto" and the post on detecting altered kissaki is examples on articles that have given us members alot of input. I will gladly pre pay for the book. Sincerely trygve
  3. Thanx for the input ! I will try to visit some of these places and hope to see something of interest. with low expectations, I cant`t get disepointed. Thanx again! Regards Trygve
  4. Hello! I am going on little trip to Paris (France) soon and wonder if there are any museums, shops or exephitions with Japanese swords, armour etc. I have found out that the place with Napoleons toomb have some Japanese armour. Hope you french have some tips !!! mvh trygve
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    NOTCH on tang

    additional info. I was referring to arsenal and war time in the old days, during koto and shinto times. castle did have a lot of unmounted blades of swords, spears and polearms for use when mounting soldiers. many blades where made in bulk and maybe many was collected from the battlefield after victory to be used for mounting large armies. t his is just my speculation of course. regards trygve
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    NOTCH on tang

    the nothes are marks for identify arsenal blades wich where issued for soldiers in war times or when defending castles. the nothes are a way of keeping track of blades and wich saya and tsuka fit that particular blade. this was a topic a couplenof years ago on the the old messageboard. these blades where kept undressed foe easy service. you never see good quality blades with these nothes. trygve
  7. Histoy lesson: Viking did not have horn on their helmets- That's a Hollywood contribution to make the Vikings look scary. Anyway - thanks to Stephen for his efforts and god luck to Ted !! regards trygve (grand grand grand grand grand grand grand grandson of Erik Blodøks)
  8. Once again thanks for a helping hand, Nobody!!! You have helped me translate part of this sword's mei before -ref. http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=854 The smith in question is the same Chikugo Kiyotsuna as the mei is identical with the sword on the Japanese website. This is the only rererance I have found where I can compare workmanship. The hamon looks very alike but since the photos on the Japanese website are not very detailed, I was interested in the description on the sword and info on the smith/school. Thanks to Nobody, I once again have something to work on when it comes to do research of this sword. Regards trygve
  9. Hello! A while back i bought a rusty katana by a smith called Kiyotsuna. The blade is under restoration and I am looking for reference on this school/smith. I found this for sale on a Japanese website and wonder if someone who know Japanese could help translate. I have tried web translator sites, but they translate it into babble. http://tsuruginoya.com/mn1_3/f00007.html paragraph to translate: 筑後久留米ä½æ¸…綱 嘉永四年二月日 形状 : é› ï¼š 刃文 : å¸½å­ ï¼š 茎 : éŽ¬é€ ã€åºµæ£Ÿã€èº«å¹…・é‡ã­å°‹å¸¸ã«ã—ã¦ã€å…ƒå…ˆã®å¹…差ややã¤ãã€åã‚Šã¤ãã€ä¸­é‹’やや延ã³ã‚‹ã€‚ å°æ¿ç›®è‚Œã‚ˆãã¤ã¿ã€ã€åœ°æ²¸ã¤ãã€åœ°æ™¯å…¥ã‚Šã€ç„¡åœ°é¢¨ãªè‚Œåˆã„を呈ã™ã€‚ å°äº’ã®ç›®ã‚’主調ã«å°ä¸å­é¢¨ã®åˆƒäº¤ã˜ã‚Šã€è¶³ãƒ»è‘‰å…¥ã‚Šã€åŒ‚å‹ã¡ã«å°æ²¸ã¤ãã€éƒ¨åˆ†çš„ã«è’ã‚ã®æ²¸ã¨ãªã‚Šã€ç ‚æµã—ã‹ã‹ã‚‹ã€‚ 焼ãæ·±ãã€ç›´ã調ã«æµ…ãã®ãŸã‚Œè¾¼ã¿ã€å°ä¸¸å°–ã‚Šã”ã“ã‚ã¨ãªã‚Šã€å…ˆæŽƒãã‹ã‘る。 生ã¶ã€å…ˆåˆƒä¸Šã‚Šæ —å°»ã€é‘¢ç›®å¤§ç­‹é•ã„化粧ã¤ãã€ç›®é‡˜å­”一。 説明 : åé‘‘ã«ã€é’木五郎。清広å­ã€‚é•·é‹æ–Žç¶±ä¿Šé–€ã€‚江戸ã«ã¦ã‚‚打ã¤ã€‚弘化ã“ã‚。筑後。ã¨ã‚る。 作風ã¯å‚™å‰ä¼ã‚’主ã«ã—ã¦ã€åŒ‚出æ¥ã®ä¸å­ã«äº’ã®ç›®äº¤ã˜ã‚Šã®åˆƒæ–‡ã‚’焼ãã€é›ã¯å°æ¿ç›®ãŒã¤ã¾ã£ã¦ç„¡åœ°é¢¨ã¨ãªã‚‹ã€‚ ã“ã®åˆ€ã¯ã€å¸«ï¼šé•·é‹æ–Žç¶±ä¿Šã‚†ãšã‚Šã®å‚™å‰ä¼ã®åˆƒæ–‡ã‚’焼ã„ãŸå…¸åž‹ä½œã§ã‚る。 ã¾ãŸã€é™¸è»è»åˆ€æ‹µãŒé™„帯ã—ã¦ã„ã‚‹ãŒã€è»åˆ€æ‹µã«ç´ã‚られãŸåˆ€å‰£ã¯ã‚µãƒ¼ãƒ™ãƒ«ã®å®šå¯¸ã§ã‚ã‚‹2å°º1寸å‰å¾Œã«ç£¨ä¸Šã’られãŸã‚‚ã®ã‚‚多ã„ãŒã€æœ¬ä½œã¯ç”Ÿã¶èŒŽã®çŠ¶æ…‹ã§ã‚ã‚‹ã“ã¨ãŒå¥½ã¾ã—ã„。 thanks! trygve
  10. THanx for the warning! Always nice to know who can be trusted or not. general: When it comes to fraud or shady sellers it is always a bad thing. But I think it is a very good thing to warn collecters about sellers that introduce them self as collectors or knowledgeble persons. These are the most rutless people. I think there is a difference in selling a $ 500 junk on ebay wich turn up to be a wallhenger and selling a "quality" koto nihonto for many thousend of $. Luckely there are few of these people out there. We all remember Darcy's "scottish-muslim" incident a while back. These people gives our hobby a bad name. Jon! 9k is a lot of money here in europe also and I hope this can be solved for you. regards trygve
  11. Hello again! Found another referen!ce that confirm my thought on the mei being shoshin! regards trygve
  12. Hello again Dirk! The filemarks are close match. I was fooled by the schratches near the machi on the ura. It looked like taka - no - ha yasurime at first glance when I browsed through your photos. The sword was given to Major Brownfield from an colonel H.Ito who has given an appraisel in the surrender letter. he says: I have the honour to present you this sword with the explanation of it's history briefly as follows: This sword has been treated as a family treasure, since it has been in my familiy for many generation. It was made by one famous excellent sword makes named "Tango no kami naomichi" in the latter part of the 17th Century. The Characteristic feauture of this sword is in it's excellent sharpness, which was called "ODANUKI" and had been admired my many brave "SAMURAS" of that generation. Sincerely trygve
  13. thanx Grey! The mei looks the same as the example in the middle. Both the hamon, hada and the filemarks resemble Tango no kami Naomichi aka Kanemichi. My conclusion is Sho shin, but I will never know for sure before a shinsa team has seen it. Thanx for all the input and help! Sincerely trygve
  14. hello Dirk! It looks the same. but the file marks are different and there are only kajji on one side. The hamon looks similar with the slanting backwards. trygve
  15. hi Dirk! Thanks for your the photo of your wak. What kind of hamon and hada does your blade have? This katana has a slanting gunome choji hamon that is very nice done. I have not found any sho shin example for reference. The lack of kyo yakidashi make me think it is an very early blade by this smith or gimei. There is a small yakidashi that consist of very small gunome before et explode in to slanting gunome choji hamon. Tha boshi is not visible because of the schratches on the kissaki. The mei on your waki look cloose with a little differences. regards trygve
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