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  1. Jimmy,

     

    As a rule of thumb, nobody is entitled to state an opinion on a subject based on ear say.
    You don’t know the English Token, though I am French, I know it and furthermore his former chairman Paul B. Is a very good friend of mine and a fine gentleman. It is a very good association based on learning swords in hand or by lectures performed by very learned gentlemen.

    I am sure you can get a free invitation to a meeting. 
    Subscribe, assist at meetings and then state your opinion, otherwise it is not worth a dime.

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  2. I remember that more than a decade ago, during one of our Kokusai Token Kai meeting, Zénon van Damme brought an engraved and signed wakizashi. It was made by Naotane in Yamashiro style and had these burls in the hada.

    He told us that they were a kantei point to Naotane.

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  3. When one relies upon others’ judgements to declare himself elitist, problems arise….

     

    As it has been said blades must been judged according their own merits, independently of the smiths. It is what experts do for o suriage or mumei blades in Shinsa. Quality then determine the level of the kanteisho. A blade by a Rai smith, be his level saijo saku, may never reach Juyo level.

     

    The sword makes the smith and not the opposite.

     

     

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  4. Just to add, often the shogun or Daimyo who had not treasure swords to offer, had a stock of o suriage mumei swords and offer them with a certificate of famous appraisers stating that the sword was forged by grand Grand Master so and so. Nobody was fooled and the blade could be reoffered a few years later and so on… Everybody was keeping face.

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