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Hi Ken, thank you for your time and patience. I can't see yakidashi, temper line seems go on in the nakago Marco C

@ paulb bad pics. I'm so sorry, there aren't ara nie it's only a pixel effects. i will try to find better pics. I can see crab claw or something that looks like, but togari and nakago confuse me! Marco C.

Many thanks for the fast replies, @ dig 1982, just send a pm. @ paulb. the shinogi-ji shows a very coarse masame to me and there is a lamination ware in the middle of the blade. Looking at the blade whit my untrained eyes, i can't see many nie activity, but probably i'm wrong. I'll restart my research in satsuma. @hxw, boshi could be ok but fukura doesn't follow ko shinogi, to me. which kind of pics. are better to discover more? Many many thanks Marco C.

Hi all, my name's Marco, i'm from Milan Italy, new to this forum i'd like to understand something more about my sword. Please note, i'm a begginner i have some differents base text, but at the moment i can't put hamon near some schools or provinces. So my question is, could someone put me on the right way? Any help will be appreciated and please forgive my English Some (probably wrong) personal consideration: The blade is tired and show some hada ware and a 4mm. fukure yabure across nioi guchi, kissaki looks like bad reshaped probably a broken tip. Reading the Nagayama, nagasa and sugata make me think shinto era about 1600 or a bit later. The hamon is midare-ba and it's rather different on the both side. One side starts togari gunome while the end is a kind of gunome choji the other side shows a different mix of gunome choji elements. The boshi too is quite differents on both side. Aren't these Sue Seki features? I am rather confused! Hamon seems nioi deki, with ashi, yo, a pair of litlle kinsuji and a very little ko nie near ha machi zone. measures: Nagasa: 40,7 cm. Sori: 0,8 cm. Nakago: 10,8 cm. (nakago shows 1,5 cm machi okuri) Moto haba: 2,7 cm. Saki haba: 2,0 cm. Moto kasane: 0,64 cm. Saki kasane: 0,45 cm. Kissaki: 2,9 cm. Yasuri me: gyaku takanoha Hada: seems itame and masame in the shinogi-ji Thank you Marco C.