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thank you Bruce Have you seen the stamp on the nakago Mune? sure no other stamps found

here was a blue-brown company officers tassel on the sword's handle, which is quite rotten now.

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A little special feature A beautiful original D Guard sword ( Koshirae with Ka Mon) with a special fitted high quality beautiful ctrafted sword balde by Muto Hidehiro with imperial special date. You can clearly see from the nakago, that it was fitted to the old handle. It is also interesing that the thick quality habaki is signed on the inside, (both sides). I think I reconize "Chikugo"

Thank you a lot Piers perfect !

thank you very much Moriyama san found a second signature on this beautiful Ukiyoe perhaps its date?

sorry printing error, I meant "ukiyoe"

i hope somebody can help me and translate this Kanji They came from an woodblockprint (ukijoe9 owned by Kotani Yasunori,which I received as a birthday present years ago. Thank you in advance!

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yes,thank you Eric Molinier, who sent this beautiful Tanto Yasunori Tanto to Germany to Michael67

interesting one might be think, that with the intensity of the war, individual production steps were simplyfied??, because as can beseen in the graphic in tom Kishid's book, the production number of manufactered blades increased. to what extent this alsso affects the rarer Tanto blades cannot be confirmed certainly.

let's get back to the point Michael what kind of Mune shape does your beautiful YasunoriTanto have? A mitsumune too?

Michael from Neil perhaps??

yes, thats how it is with shipping, someone is always selling and shipping