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Thank you Brian can only confirm, that Kotani san was a kind and polite person and as we all know by now a great swordsmith! I was happy and proud to have been in good contact with him until his passing on March 1. 2003 a on nd special thanks to his granddaughter, who kindlydid all the translations between us. Once again, congratulations on your new Taketoku, we've already talked about it. An extremely rare signed example crafted by the great Kajiyama Yasutoku.

sorry forget to mention The appearance of such eleaborately crafted blades is often more attractive to our taste. like hamon ,shape , ect ect

Brian after my reseach the reason for different place of the Mekugi ana could be a visual marker that the blade was made outside the shrine forge. the smith was free to choose the style of the balde and was not bound by the the strict rules of the shrine smith gulid

congrat's Brian !! rare find with this signature great sword and what a christmas present!!

Thnk you for sharing Jussi !!

Ray is right nice early yasukuni shrine sword made by Ikeda yasumits's sucsessor Abe Yasushige. Can we see the whole sword, blade included its Koshirae, if still available?

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

Thank's this looks old Bizen Tachi Especially with its rare gunome Choji temper.

earlier dated Yasukuni Tanto have mitsu mune

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