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My gratitude to you Even. I had suspected as

Please tell me if that's ok?

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Opps my bad, apologies, I think my url was down, coming up shortly

fascinating

I'd be very as to grateful exactly what this is? The ko sukashi seems to well done but I'm unaware as to it's age or indeed anything else to its provenance, though it does have to some decent iron. Is it kosho? I'd be very grateful to any clues

There are plans afoot to republish it.

Thank you all for the information.

Well speaking as newbie here a year later, the longer I stick around the more fascinated I become. I've yet to buy a sword but was lucky enough to be gifted one and after copious amounts of reading (and re-reading) I am saving for a trip to Japan late next year and should I be able to find one with enough time to schedule it in I will be attepting to find an authourity to guide me for a day perhaps.

Many thanks for the suggestion, Marius. I think a copy is in order. There's a copy for £162 on amazon uk lol. And for the information too - I wish I had the funds handy to buy that Osafune Masamitsu - I think my sword collecting days would be over. Ah well, there's always the lottery.

Answer found, Some searching here has answered my question. For some reason I couldn't get the search function to work last last night. So, were it a personal preference on befalf of the soldier or smith? Meanwhile I will be saving for sword in better condition. Never-the-less the bug has truely been acquired. Thank you for your kind hints

Hello again friends I do hope you’ll forgive the possible spam and any imposition on your time, but I recently posted a mumei sue-Koto wakizashi that I had received as a gift and posted in one of the above forums. Nothing special by all accounts but after some consideration a few possible issues have come to light, to which end I thought I might post some more information and then ask some questions that have been intriguing me. Despite my best efforts at this stage in my studies the sheer mass of information is overwhelming. • Nagasa – 45cm • Overall – 59cm • Nakago - 13.7cm • Mekugi ana – the one evident and possibly one more 4cm further down the nakago. • Sori – approx 1.5-1.6cm • Kissaki – 3.6cm • Kasane – 5.5mm (ish) The sword doesn’t obviously seem suriage, why then what seems another mekugi ana? Certainly the blade hasn’t lost a lot of yakiba despite the odd ware. Also the shimogoji kiri/hira sujaki just looks suspect, if it is that. I realise I may be overlooking something entirely obvious to you chaps, but would be very grateful for any opinions. Many Thanks

As promised, including a nasty surprise. The ware on the hamon is worrying.

Thank you, I will endeavor to post a few more pictures of the coming days.

Hey all I received a gift the other day. An I'm guessing mid Edo waki - not without a few faults, but I like the shape and am over the moon. I'll add a few pictures to let you confirm or otherwise. Forgive the photography as it's slightly old tech I'm working with