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  1. Jacques
    In fact, the question doesn't even arise.
  2. Jacques
    Blade with shinogi and nakago without shinogi = fake
  3. Jacques
    I would like to recommend this establishment, whose owner I know very well and whose articles are of a very high standard (the price is also high). As far as I know, he doesn't sell over the Internet, at least not the top of the range. http://www.japansword.co.jp/
  4. Jacques
    It is Tokuho and therefore free of redhibitory defects
  5. Jacques
    Learn history of Shodai Tadayoshi... Konuka hada is a variety of ko itame...
  6. Jacques
    Beautiful work but I prefer sobriety and discretion.
  7. Jacques
    Same as said Ray
  8. Jacques
    According Danny Massey (Nihontocraft)
  9. Jacques
    Daisho resulted from the samurai's obligation to wear one long and one short sword, and nothing else. The rest is a matter of fashion.
  10. Jacques
    I'd like to know what you do when the blade is not polished and neither hada nor hamon are visible. How do you judge whether this blade deserves restoration or not? As I've always said, it's when the work fits that you must study the mei most seriously.
  11. Jacques
    Picture is too small but i wouldn't dream too much ..
  12. Jacques
    I know, I used to know a few of them, and I've even been asked to do the work for them on occasion. I remember a Ko AOE that took me 6 months and 2 trips to Japan.
  13. Jacques
    There's a part of the nihonto market that ignores the Internet, and it's generally very high-end.
  14. Jacques
    If i'm not wrong mei reads 兼道作 Kanemichi saku, that excludes Mihara school Edit :Confusion between the two swords
  15. Jacques
    A polish can only be truly appreciated blade in hand
  16. Jacques
    19 Muromachi Bizen Kiyomitsu..
  17. Jacques
    Apparently he doesn't know how to place the ito on a menuki (neither do I), which gives a wobbly effect.
  18. Jacques
    I know, he hasn't had any proper training, he's self-taught, so the work leaves a lot to be desired.
  19. Jacques
    Who made it ?
  20. Jacques
    Better time looking for a needle in a haystack!
  21. Jacques
    The samurai had the right of life and death over the other castes, armed or not...
  22. Jacques
    The mass of the steel remains the same, but the weight of a sword depends on its sugata and the number of polishings it has received; thickening stones have not yet been invented.
  23. Jacques
    Wearing a sword should not be confused with owning one. It has never been compulsory to shorten a sword you keep at home. Many swords have been hoarded from the moment they were made, and have never been worn and then never suriage
  24. Jacques
    https://www.dictiona...om/browse/redundancy Have you opened this book at least once? And this is just one example - I can name many others in French, English and Japanese. https://www.amazon.f...-Guide/dp/0870115626
  25. Jacques
    What's new and undocumented elsewhere? Another treasure (not available in english): It lists all the historical figures and facts, laws, major companies, etc. in Japanese history https://www.aventure...naire-histoire-japon Available free of charge here https://www.persee.fr/collection/dhjap
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