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  1. Question has been asked, Jacques, and I am sure you’ll answer it.
  2. I don’t know if Darcy’s articles are still available but there was one related to the rating/ranking system. a very good shop, one of the top, if not the best one is Sokendo. You will find swords from 5K¥ upto no limit (several 10M¥).
  3. Wonderful Nihonto for sale by Rivkin at very reasonable price👍👍👍
  4. Another example from one of my former tanto
  5. Very strange shinogi……..
  6. Forget shinsa criteria, I know 2 historical tanto which will never pass juyo but which should be by right as unique: both are the only existing exemplary tanto : one is by the founder of the Ayanakoji school, and the other one is this one:
  7. 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.
  8. Except for some special events when smiths forge swords dedicated, the custom was to offer old swords made by master smiths.
  9. John, in this case, you must buy blades in perfect polish, nobody has never learned anything from an out of polish blade. Here is a post I wrote years ago: https://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/12646-advices-for-newbies-buyers-rules-of-thumb/
  10. In fact John, Nihonto for you is a key for dreaming and not for learning😀
  11. Undoubtedly Nick is one of the best to provide full packages (papered blades+koshirae) well priced.
  12. Probably, the way this sword came to France is quite curious.;;
  13. Koichi, to answer your question: it is exactly the same, where some people entitled themselves to change tsuba, put another tsuka, removed the seppas, send this to switzerland.Sold by a Chinese from Lausanne to a collector and of course resold to a French who does not know anything about Japanese swords.
  14. Thanks a lot guys for your help. Koichi, I don’t know but I’ll ask the question.
  15. For the mei, I translate «HOKI (NO) KAMI TAIRA ASON MASAYUKI » I am looking for the first kanji and translation of the date. The mei looks Sho Shin, what do you think?
  16. To answer the question Buffing does not prevent a blade to be traditionally polished, the result will depend on the heat generated by the buffing and the healthiness of the blade. I had a buffed blade decades ago which was traditionally polished later on and turned out nicely.
  17. Unfortunately pictures are lousy. I would like the measurements : nakago, nagasa, motohaba, sakihaba and kissaki. the way pictures are taken, the blade looks disproportionate (nakago vs nagasa, kissaki ridiculously small) Forget the horimono, it does not belong to Rai school, the blade is destroyed, nothing to study
  18. Makes no sense ? maybe i did not understand the meaning...! sory i am newbiew in Japanese swords... all sword with tang measures 82 cm, the blade is 67 cm nakago= Tang = 82-67= 15 cm nagasa= cutting edge = 67cm
  19. nakago -> 82cm magasa -> 67cm kissaki -> 6cm ??????
  20. 👍👌😄
  21. Yoroi-doshi ?????? moto kasane: 2,45 mm moto haba: 9,1 mm
  22. Jimmy, you are wrong. There are people who own Museum quality blades and who advertize it on NMB. Among them, late Darcy. Edit to add that the best articles are far from being in Museum but often in private collections😁
  23. « I think however that comparing Bach with Mozart, Rachmaninov, Mussorgsky is not relevant » why?
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