Jacques

A little correct, In this case, the kanji ichi means item, not one.

I won't get into the debate because I'm not interested in shinsakuto, so I don't know much about it. As for mei, you should know that they are in no way comparable to a handwritten signature. The smith engraves his mei to the exact stroke of the hammer and with great precision, and the changes that can be seen over the course of a career owe nothing to chance. If you're wise, perhaps one day I'll be able to explain these variations to you.

Naotane is one of the best shinshinto swordsmiths. I never talk about price, that's personal business.

Well, when a kissaki is well repaired, it doesn't show at all and especially not on photos.

I disagree. A good polisher would rather leave the defect than transform the shape of the kissaki. The one on the juyo looks very much like an ikubi kissaki 猪首切先 (common for this smith).

No, i had a tachi with a broken chu kissaki, the polisher (Zenon van Damme) returned the sword with the same type of kissaki.

I's a ko-kissaki, and the first quality of a good polisher is not to transform the architecture of a sword: a ko kissaki must remain a ko-kissaki and a chu-kissaki must remain a chu-kissaki.

I don't see anything wrong with this, it's common for the late Kamakura and Nanbokucho period. It's called Hisaki agaru.

Looks uchigatana so it can be late Muromachi.

OK, many thanks.

Thanks Markus So apparently no connection with the Hosokawa school.

Many thanks Steve.

It's just part of life, only dirty mind make a big deal of it.

I've never seen that before : different nengo on the same nakago (due to the quality of pictures i can't make out the entire mei) If someone has an explication https://www.proantic...11440-handashi.html#

You are wrong about my name and it's dishonest to post a name without the owner's consent, which just goes to show what kind of person you are. Having said that, the fact that you have obtained a nyusen does not make you the expert that you proclaim to be and there I take you every morning. By the way, I'm going to ask you a question: what is the characteristic that must be found in the hamon of the nidai Izumi no kami fujiwara Kunisada?

Sukekane 祐包 instead Sukeyoshi

You're lying because in this video you claim to have graduated in Japan, which is false. ps you don't know me but i know you. Thanks Michael for clarification.

Traditionnaly trained ? https://www.sudouest...-france-21459120.php

You don't know that the term handashi applies to a koshirae, not a sword, and you don't know how to read a signature . For an NBTHK-recognized expert and polisher, that's not good enough. https://www.proantic...11440-handashi.html# For your diploma, the organization's last kanji is different, the stamp doesn't match and neither does the color, and I've never seen an official NBTHK document with so many ink smudges. An expert as you claim to be finds something interesting that is not at all traditional, you're a clown. https://www.proantic...11475-wakizashi.html What did Laurent die of?

there are some things that don't fit with your diploma; and you would have been Laurent's apprentice from what date to what date?

Laurent Milhau has never had a student - there are at least a dozen people in France who can confirm this. You'll show us

Don't' trust Patrice Sabbah who is a self trained polisher and a pseudo expert

Notare midareba = notare midare; no need to repeat each time the ji ba/ha wich means hamon. we know we're not talking about sausages When you read "hamon wa gunome midare" it means "hamon wa gunome midareba".

It seems that Fujishiro himself agrees with me, but if you don't know that the Japanese like shortcuts, you're forgivable. Shinto Hen par 481.

He's one train behind