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Jean

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  1. Keep up posted with your health status that’s the most important. I hope they give you painkillers.
  2. Please, inquiry must be kept by PM. Apply the rule of thumb: quality first, mei second...
  3. A special one from the sixties for Brian:
  4. No reason, why not? Everyone is entitled to have his own collecting field for example, I collect kogatana made by Mino smiths cerca 1680
  5. Tips off: price does not fit kantei points Tsuruta san does not guarantee it will pass shinsa
  6. What do you think of it: https://www.aoijapan.com/tanto-oku-yamato-kami-ason-omi-motohira/
  7. The most frustrating is when someone asks for more pictures, more details and that he is absolutely not in the buying mood. Before providing the extra work, I suggest to PM the member and ask him if he is a potential buyer. Something frustrating also is having always the same members praising the item and complaining they have no money/empty pockets. Sellers can do without the empty pocket lament.
  8. +1 Paul, I have the same problems
  9. Marc, pictures are smaller than stamps, (50 kb!!!!)
  10. Jean

    Enju school hada

    Never seen masame hada in Enju blades. Enju is an offshot of Yamashiro Rai. There are only two Rai smiths where masame can be found: Rai Kunitoshi and one of his sons : Ryokai
  11. Jean

    full length images

    Very good, but a bit dark on the shinogi side. When I enlarge resonably the picture I can see the hada
  12. What is your opinion, Here is a picture of the tang
  13. Masamlne, I dig his tantos.
  14. If you see the words « style/pattern », flee. It means the object is not « genuine ». if asking question to the Auction house, you must ask if it is a « genuine samurai sword », otherwise no guarantee. in the same manner, you have « signed xxxxx » and « signed by xxxxx »
  15. I don’t miss any blade, Barry, but I can assure you that all my friends who got one, are more than pleased to get and cherish them. After 6 years, it was time to pass them and have advanced collectors enjoying them. Jeremy, Ray and Paul can testify that for a while, each blade were or are still they favorite and when you know their collections, that means something. But no, I miss none of them and I am more than glad to have my friends benefit from them
  16. Juyo Ryokai. It has a papered handachi koshirae with a wooden lacquered tsuba. Late Kamakura, around 1290/1300. Interesting, the blade was in old shirasaya with a sayagaki to Ryokai when submitted to juyo shinsa. one of Ryokai kantei point is masame rolling along the hamon, like in Naoe Shizu school, it is a common kantei point he shared with his father, Rai Kunitoshi. This sword has also a midare utsuri. http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/17414-achieved-collection-gokaden/page-2
  17. Bungo has been a very good school and had very good smiths. Should .they have had access to good tamahagane, they could have matched Hizen
  18. Corrected the title typo
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