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  1. Jacques
    Without measurements, we can't say anything. It's the basis of the basis of kantei.
  2. Jacques
    NBTHK is not going to say that a sword is good to throw away...
  3. Jacques
    In fact, the hozon only means that the sword has been made in the traditional way and that the signature, if it has one, is good, that's all.
  4. Jacques
    In Japan, this is commonplace, and many kazu-uchi mono have a hozon.
  5. Jacques
    When you shorten a nakago, you only file one side, whether it's signed or not.
  6. Jacques
    I think i know whom and that makes me laughing.
  7. Jacques
    If you don't know how to make a suriage, I can't help you. Oh !! Maybe there is. https://www.nihontomessageboard.com/articles/Suriage.pdf
  8. Jacques
    Disobliging comments from people who have never held this sword in their hands.
  9. Jacques
    If only the person who put me a downvote had a beginning of an argument... But not even that.
  10. Jacques
    This is not a manufacturing defect but just wear and tear due to numerous polishings. It is therefore accepted by NBTHK but only for the hozon, which I repeat is in no way a guarantee of quality. There's only one, but photographied from different angles Obviously suriage.
  11. Jacques
    Shinobi ana existed since Kamakura era.
  12. Jacques
    What said a polisher (now deceased)
  13. Jacques
    I must add that the polisher's job is to highlight the swordsmith's workmanship and nothing else.
  14. Jacques
    According some polishers, a good sashikomi is much harder to achieve than a hadori
  15. Jacques
    I hope i'm wrong but i don't like that :
  16. Jacques
    It's exactly the same blade
  17. Jacques
    Many swords that have come down to us were never used in combat; those that cost the equivalent of a family's food for a century to make were often kept and passed on as gifts, or handed down from generation to generation.
  18. Jacques
    From Markus Sesko's Nihotô meikan translation :
  19. Jacques
    Once more, never buy a sword without having really seen it.
  20. Jacques
    Link ? Maybe the seller has an explanation.
  21. Jacques
    Not only Osaka smiths , and others are missing such Tadayoshi school
  22. Jacques
    Things are always relative, when we speak of little sori it's in relation to the previous or the following era. That said, the major characteristic of Kanbun shinto is on tapering = a notable difference (1cm or more) between moto haba and saki haba (1 cm or more). I don't trust NTHK (once i sent a katana with NTHK papers to NBTHK shinsa and that katana turned to be gimei....).
  23. Jacques
    Kanbun shinto is not only sori.... which is a little bit too small https://sanmei.com/contents/en-us/p2456.html https://www.samuraimuseum.jp/shop/product/antique-Japanese-sword-wakizashi-signed-by-mino-no-kami-jyumyo-nbthk-hozon-certificate/?srsltid=AfmBOoqVUWsHsgkZy6PEPij9PiZLhZ4qD1V6kzd08nsNon0uVIOT1156
  24. Jacques
    Due to the measurements, i would exclude Kanbun shinto
  25. Jacques
    Measurements of motohaba and sakihaba please ?
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