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  1. Jacques
    Gimei and it's visible :
  2. Jacques
    Don't works, i cannot see nakago and the description says nothing about yasurime If this sword is from Shiga Kanenobu yasurime should be saka Takanoha
  3. Jacques
    What kind of yasurime on the "Kanenobu" please?
  4. Jacques
    As there is a lot of incomprehension about acid polishing this is well worth a read. http://www.ksky.ne.jp./~sumie99/acid polishing.html
  5. Jacques
    To be clear : it cannot be seen on photos
  6. Jacques
    I never talk about quality without having the blade in hand, photos are just photos, in general you can't see anything.
  7. Jacques
    Gimei without doubt
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  9. Jacques
    Here is hako midare
  10. Jacques
    I'd say there's no typical hamon in Muramasa's work, he quenched in many different forms : notare, notare midare, sanbon-sugi, O-midare, togari gunome, hako midare ( it's posssbile i forget some).
  11. Jacques
    Another one
  12. Jacques
    Don't worry From NBTHK's Oshigata collection
  13. Jacques
    I wasn't talking to you, but to Rivkin.
  14. Jacques
    it's very common. Nagayama doesn't talk about Nengo and his approach is really very/too generalist.
  15. Jacques
    Ok your first reference is from the site shoshin which cannot be considered as a very reliable source. The second is a Sukesada (more 70 Sukesada) and it is obvious that kazu-uchi mono are excluded and I wonder why the literature does not mention this fact, here is what the nihonto Koza (Afu translation) says
  16. Jacques
    I'd like to have sources confirming what you say
  17. Jacques
    It's the same sword
  18. Jacques
    I would love to see an example. The Osafune Taikan lists 54 Swords signed Kiyomitsu all have a nengo. All Bizen swords with a nagamei and sue koto have a nengo Example below
  19. Jacques
    Normally all swords from Kiyomitsu with a nagamei must have a nengo too (as well all Bizen swords from this period). It seems obvious that the date has been erased, but why, I don't know. Yours comes from AOI art. https://sword-auctio...fune-kiyomitsu-saku/ https://www.yamasiro...na/katana/_1567.html https://bizenya-katana.com/?thoken=備前国住長船清光作
  20. Jacques
    21° at home, thank you my old stone house with 70 cm thick walls
  21. Jacques
    Dew point at 25° is fairly high i calculated it at home, it is 7.7° ps sry for being off topic. ps2 Colin you don't have to address me, I won't answer you.
  22. Jacques
    I'm lucky enough to know a very good Japanese polisher who taught me one thing: the less you touch a blade, the better you preserve it. I cleaned my swords when i bought them and they had never been oiled since. It's useless in a room where the average humidity is 45%. Now, you can do what you like with what I say, that's not my problem.
  23. Jacques
    Just a legend. Uchiko is abrasive. No need to say any more. In the old days, this was the only way to clean a blade. Nowadays, however, it's no longer an option. I wonder how many people here can describe the difference between sashikomi and hadori.
  24. Jacques
    All tachi by Sadamune were O suriage so they are all mumei....
  25. Jacques
    As the works of shodai Tadayoshi are not uncommon, there is a very strong probability that this accident took place after the tokuho was obtained. Note that the chip joins the hamon, which is a fatal flaw. In fact, this sword isn't worth a cent anymore.
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