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會陽住三善長道 Eyo ju Miyoshi Nagamichi Shinshinto Aizu methinks?

If it is a gendaito you risk potentially ruining it forever in about two seconds! Don't do it yourself!

Ishihara Kanenao

I think it says: 神妙建依別阿部弘昭造之 Shinmyo ?Takeyoriwake Abe Hiroaki tsukuru kore Seems dedicated to a religious person or figure not quite sure of nengo 昭和 _ ?甲申年八月日 Aug 1944

日本鍛冶長者古山陸奥介弘元 - Nihon Kaji Chojya (Japan senior/chief blacksmith) Furuyama Mutsu no Suke Hiromoto the date is 天保六末年二月日 - last days of February Tenpo 6 (thx uwe for correction) 十二八度折返鍛　forged by folding 28 times If you take a vertical pic of the entire dedication? That would aid reading

Thanks Ray! I took a punt on a healthy Katayama Ichimonji naginata naoshi katana of good length but a bit rusty. All it needed was a good polish!

Hi Ray, I just got the good news yesterday that my blade passed! It's a first for me so am quite chuffed!

looks kind of like 屋 to me

寛随 - Hiroyuki A quick googling suggests 室田寛随 / Murota Hiroyuki was a disciple of Hamano school founder Shozui

I guess Tadatsuna

Malcolm - I believe its the other way round i.e the tsukuru pronounciation stems from the native/Japanese word

i agree with Steve. it could be 摄 which is another form of 摂/攝

Mittsu-do kiriotoshi kore Yamano Kanjuro Hisahide 三ツ胴（切）落之　山野勘十郎久英　Cut through 3 bodies by Yamano Kanjuro Hisahide don't quite understand the date after October 寛文壬子孟冬(?サ/廿)一鳥　　Kanbun mizunoe-ne moutou 1672 October __　?21st

Regarding the Sukeyori, there is one listed as Nitta, a contemporary late Kamakura Bizen side school (similar to Wake). They both had Yamashiro influences in their work which could fit the bill for with the "Aoe" influence I think in this sword. The relative obscurity of Nitta work could explain why it has not reached Juyo as yet. Sorry for sidetracking

Obviously as nihonto is an art and not a science there will be some degree of subjective opinion and fluidity... I am still learning the Juyo 'game', but I agree with Darcy in that certain schools and smiths are more predominantly featured at Juyo level simply due to the fact that if a mumei blade of a certain style reaches a certain quality it will be attributed to the 'top' smith/school of that style - the Norishige/Tametsugu-Sanekage/Uda/Shimada argument for example makes sense.That is why you see Juyo attributed to the first 3 smiths in that list, but very rarely the last 2. So therefore unless you have a signed example of a 'lower' tier school it will be less likely to pass Juyo, as any high quality mumei blades by this school would already have been attributed to a higher tier school of that style. I guess you could call it a sort of selection bias at the H/TH level, but there is a certain logic. My 2c

something NQR with the hada it seems. I second the ?acid-etch query

Apparently it is a prefecture in Korea?

Appearance of two good looking Ko-Aoe blades for those interested... https://www.aoijapan.com/katana-mumei-ko-aoe-masatsune22nd-nbthk-juyo-paper/ http://www.nipponto.co.jp/swords4/NT329000.htm

Looks like 錦山 to me

Nice one John. I think 栗原米司 is more likely a name I.e Kurihara Yoneji

Wow what a find!

I submitted a signed late kamakura katana nagasa 72cm, healthy that didn't pass. However it was a hari-mei and by waki line Bizen Shigenori. I took a punt as I noted a contemporary signed Bizen Nitta school katana passing last year. A learning experience I guess!

Dang it! Thanks Jussi

Looks like good blade I agree. But some normal light photos would help to look at few areas of hada. It'll probably go pretty quick after the auction ends I think. Could prob take a punt at Juyo too imo

I actually don't really know the market price for a ubu Kiyomaro daito ? $200-300k USD or something similarly ridiculous? So this would probably be around half a million? Pfft chump change