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price reduction 250,00 €, excl. postage Kindest regards

price reduction 270,00 €, excl postage Kindest regards

Dear members, I am offering here an early Ko-Kinko Kogai with a box, around late 16th century. It is very well preserved and is made of Yamagane, as was typical for the period. The motif is cherry blossoms in sukidashi-bori over a punched background with clear traces of urushi. The back of the kogai has subtle sujikai-yasurime. Price: 285,00 €, excl postage and PayPal Kindest regards

Thanks a lot for your help!

Dear members, could someone please tell me what it says on this box for a chawan? Thank you very much. Kindest regards

Sold, dear admin please delete this post. thank you

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Dear members, I am offering here one of the swords that I bought from Markus Sesko, shortly before he left Salzburg/Austria and moved to the USA. The text describing the blade is his, as are the photos. Shobu zukuri Wakizashi The sword has no papers, only the certificate of Tsuruta from Aoi-Art. The nagasa is 48.7 cm, the sori is 1.8 cm, the motohaba is 2.51 cm, and the kasane is 0.55 cm. Tsuruta dates the blade to the Muromachi period and attributes it to the Sue Naminohira school. All in all, a slender, strongly curved wakizashi blade in Shirasaya with the typical features of later Kyushu work, i.e. a whitish, soft-looking jigane. The Hada does not stick out, but is visible. It occurs as a ko-itame with mokume in places and some nagare. The hamon is hardened in nie-deki and appears as a somewhat "frayed" suguha due to the nie-heavy hataraki running parallel to the habuchi. This is typical of Naminohira. The itame-nagare speaks for Sue-Naminohira, since ayasugi often occurs with older Naminohira blades. While the above characteristics were also applied by other Sue-koto schools, the steel color speaks for Kyushu, and there the characteristics conform best to Naminohira. I would like to primarily sell the blade in Europe to avoid customs formalities! Price: 880,00 €, the price does not include postage Kindest regards

Thank you very much for your help Jan! Kindest regards

I received a tanto with this white paper, but I need help with the translation, please. Kindest regards

Dear members, the book is in a brand new and unread condition with dust jacket and cardboard box. 297 masterpiece sukashi tsuba are presented in this 341 page book (descriptions in English). A must have for iron tsuba collectors! Comes in it`s slip case. Price 130,00 €, postage is not included Kindest regards

Price reduction: 430,00 €, the price does not include postage

Price reduction: 450,00 €, the price does not include postage

Price reduction: 480,00 €, the price does not include postage

Fuchi 22 mm width, 37 mm height Kashira 16 mm width, 32 mm height

Price reduction: 500,00 €, the price does not include postage

Thank you very much for the correction Piers

Dear members, I am offering here a very fine and detailed worked fuchi-kashira made in Shibuishi. In Iroe-Takabori with shakudo and gold ears of rice on the kashira, on the fuchi an additional sparrow with an ear of rice in its beak. Signed: Bairinsai Moritsune Price: 540,00 €, the price does not include postage Payment by PayPal Kindest regards

Steve and K Morita, thank you very much for your kind translation. Kindest regards

Dear members , could someone please help me with a translation. Kindest regards

Thank you very much Dale. Now I understand!

Hi Brian, I am unsure why there are different kind of kao to find.

Dear members, I have owned this tsuba for more than 40 years now and I would like to know your opinion on it. I've looked at the different posts here in the forum and I'm also unsure about an assessment because of this. The tsuba has mokko shape and has a size of 6.5 x 6.1 x 0.53 cm, weight 99 g. . Kindest regards

Dear members, some more photos made in full daylight to show the great color of the material it is made. it is very expressive and a historical object of its time. Kindest regards

Yes, you are right Peter. Here are some more photos.