Jean
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I am waiting with anticipation the day when I find my name on a nakago
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Hi Guido, I was not aware you were in charge of moving Japan to China
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You have access to web, go to commercial links and start eveyday looking at Nihonto pictures. Then within a week please come back to the Board and tell us in your opinion what is wrong with this blade. Exercize your eyes and be critical will teach you more than other people opinion. Go to Ginza Choshuya and see their high rez pictures, same for Aoi Art or Nihonto. ca
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As usual, Stephen Hawk Eye, you are right : bowdown: Either erased or masked.
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It could well be Koyama Munetsugu, I have seen an old kantei on Miunetsugu where Aoi Art stated that :
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The gunome, yasurime, nakago jiri can fit the Munetsugu, but what of the muji hada?
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As expected, the Result of Kantei Quizz N°5 was Omi Daijo Fujiwara Tadahiro. Here is the next one : http://www.aoi-art.com/kantei/kantei06.html It is a Shinshinto mastersmith, I don't know much about this period, even less than on other period :lol: :lol:. As I am at work (( Carlo), I cannot check and make some research. I would have gone for Chounsai Tsunatoshi but for the yasurime, so I shall go for - No Ted, it is not a trap :
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IMHO, it is not a koshirae or it would have been precises in the auction
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Tu quoque, mi fili
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Knutsen book on Japanese pole arms
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http://www.aoi-art.com/auction/en/aucti ... 1213703271
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Of course the blade is on the short side, but the last I have seen at 70 cm nagasa or above where between 9M yens to 12M yens (juyo of course) : http://www.nihonto.us/YOSHIOKA%20ICHIMO ... 20JUYO.htm
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It remains a kitae ware but may acording someones not to be considered as kizu. A good polisher can some times flattened them on the shinogi ji (I have had done it on a shinto seki katana)
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It often happens on shinogi ji which were most time, during Shinto period, made of masame, a Mino inheritance. Some considers that in masame it must not be considered as a flaw
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Right Thomas and I answer from the pictures after Darcy answer (I had not seen the hints posted by Tsuruta san) Eithet bad polish or too much polishing for Hizento. From the hints I have just read an hour ago, there is few doubts about the kaji. When I posted the topic, I had not seen the "hints" and would never had gone for Tadahiro
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Yasurime and kurijiri fit Tadahiro, though it is not the best konuka hada I have seen
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http://www.aoi-art.com/kantei/kantei05.html Who made this sword do you think ? a hint
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AND THE WINNER IS : "Sometime I feel like a motherless child, a long way from home" I love Paul Robson singing this Gospel
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Hello Kevin, Captain Brian and his moderators crew you on board and so do I :D :D
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I don't know, too fuzzy pictures, but it is tachi mei ....no yokote .....
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Jean replied to Brian's topic in Forum Technical Details and Maintenance
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In fact, it looks like Dr Homma would have been more confortable with a Kanenaga attribution. What do you think of it Reinhard?
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Hi Eric, I knew it was not this Taima, but I post the Ricecracker sword for the hada
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Eric I agree with you, Andy's Kaneuji ad Ricecracker juyo Taima shows strong Hakikake. Nevertheless, the blackish jigane indicating northern country could point to Ko Uda as stated by Reinhard but I don't find this sword hada as coarse as found usually in Uda school. For those who have not seen it, check the Taima Juyo displaid on Ricecracker website
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Johnny, You are the first one My kantei (though there is no ashi) at fits glance will be late Kamakura - Soshu Yukimitsu I am probably wrong as, till now, Tsuruta san never had such quality blade on sale. An alternative of course could be Taima Btw, I love this hint : I am becoming sarcastic ...