Jean

It may well be their trasures and not their lesser ones, look at what Darcy is selling ... Unfortunately $ und stock exchange are against me

Whatever the way, Brian, just PM me for donation (of course, it is independant of the raffle objects I was offering)

Sory Milt, but Ted shall answer you, but I shall say no unless being very good and I am not sre for the following reasons. On the shinogi ji or perhaps on the hira ji, by hammering and flatenning you can make some of them disappeared, but on the hardened edge, it could be fatal. Grinding IMHO should worsen and enlarge the ware.

Could be Mino from the togari I seem to see

Must be pure masame head to toes

No Brian, it is sheer thoughtlessness

Remember Aoi-Art kantei and many answers. They are no existing signed blades from Hosho Sadamune (if I remember correctly)

Carlo, for the information, it is fantastic what I can learn from this board.

Fare well Rich, I know that managing a forum is a drag. Some people tend to be negative (euphemism), that is why I try to give my support when I can to Administrators/Moderators. I hope you will be participating from time to time to the tosogu section and enlighten us with your knowledge

Generally speaking, Logistic shall interfere only if badly needed, it is some kind of Weapon/food MASH (without Gould und Sutherland ). People on the battlefiel have their own care kit (several slings for their bows, cleaning kit for their guns, honing stones to whettle their blades). Let's imagine in Muromachi, an army ready for the battle, it means let's say 15000/20000 soldiers (it could be greater number); 30% had swords (let's imagine), it means 4500/6000 blades. Whatever the logistic, fat chance to have a sword polished. I am sure that soldiers were rather on their own and in case of surviving matter, I would not take chance and take a ticket to queue up and have my sword repaired.

Thanks a lot to you all, John, Brian, Koichi-san and G-man (Milt the Bungo ex- flying ronin).

Ian, I am still wondering which of Ignorance or common sense have caused most world ordeals during centuries

Peter is right, swords were primarily weapons whatever the century, machine mde or not

Thanks a lot , a friend of mine spotted it on Haynes and I am waiting for his written information (which are the same you gave me, BTW) A donkey/stupid question, is he related to any known school?? The best for me to learn is to spot a tsuba I like, have the school , spounge all the data about it , pound it over with a lot of examples so I can get a view of the school main characteristics.

Can someone kindly translate this mei and tell me something about artist/school Many thanks in advance

Kiritsuke mei??

Steve wrote : Common sense is very seldom found, I will hate to give a definition of "common" in our days

:D :D

Too tired to open a new topic : Just thnk to this What were the reasons a samurai would have had to have his sword polish...? What kind of polish/result did he expected? Answer : Only Practical ==> not unlike cleaning a gun after a battle ==> a good craftman must have good tools. Samuraï=duty==> his weapons mut be always at their top using ability for serving his Lord. A rusty bent dented sword needs togishi help ....BTW, that was the success of Mino swords, not artistic but reliable, cut well ability and did not ben easily ===> did not need often to be "polish" meaning :eliminating deep rust, removing dents/chips, straightening....

True, Ted. AMino Kanetsune I had bought with NTHK Kanteisho had 2 Hagire appeared after polishing.

You should not have posted them Brian, taking into account MAC, I am going to have nightmares thinking of what I have missed

Polish in itself not (I presume), but the first stage being to straighten blades which has been bent , depending on the hamon, Yakiire, it must be possible (In My Most Humble opinion) but once again I am not a togishi, Ted could tell us more

Can't rule out Mino but it has to be studied in hand, not likely Naoe Shizu (I love this school). Have you got an overall picture of the blade showing the hamon?

Brian, Have you an idea of the price and generation?