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  1. Jacques
    Chu jo saku. Bungo Takada is considered a minor school due to the absence of top-level artists.
  2. Jacques
    The subject is so vast that it's difficult to answer; among other things, the quality of a steel and a hada are things you need to know how to evaluate. For example, it's possible for a trained eye to tell whether a sword is Koto or Shinto just by the look of the steel.
  3. Jacques
    It is more relevant to judge a smith on the basis of his entire career than to judge one or another sword. The subtlety lies in knowing which are the best works of a particular smith, which the vast majority of collectors can't do.
  4. Jacques
    I'ts the sandai Osaka Yoshimichi, at first glance the mei looks legit.
  5. Jacques
    Franco It's not enough to say a polisher can do this - you have to prove it. Facts are facts words are only words... And many naginata naoshi are not true naginata naoshi but only made in the style...
  6. Jacques
    The problem is that you can't say the polisher knows if you don't know the process. And yes, the scientific method can be applied anywhere.
  7. Jacques

    Cutting hi

    Jacques replied to Kanenaga's topic in Nihonto

    Cutting hi
  8. Jacques
    This sword has obviously undergone a lot of polishing since it was suriage. Don't forget that the thickening stone hasn't yet been invented, and further polishing could lead to an even worse situation.
  9. Jacques
    Stay serious
  10. Jacques
    Detecting a gimei is much harder than you think. You need to start by taking into account the smith's entire career This one is tokubetsu hozon (dots on Kane are in the same way than on yours)
  11. Jacques
    Cheap, in 2007, a saber belonging to Napoleon Bonaparte was sold for the modest sum of €4800,000.
  12. Jacques
    Why? I'm not materialistic, nor am I interested in money. Once I've studied one sword, it no longer interests me; i study another one, and so on. I'm lucky enough to have the memory of an elephant, which enables me to remember the essential characteristics of the swords I've studied. In fact, there are only 300 smiths I'm interested in: jo, jo-jo and sai-jo saku.
  13. Jacques
    Ok thanks Jussy.
  14. Jacques
    Jussi https://kunishitei.bunka.go.jp/heritage/detail/201/6524 It's not the same; the one i shared has a 74.2 nagasa and a 0.9 cm sori
  15. Jacques
    A few hundred.
  16. Jacques
    Except that I never mentioned nagamaki... You're putting words in his mouth I'll give you an indice : fukura.
  17. Jacques
    How can you say he can reconfigure the shinogi if you don't know how? It's like saying there are green giraffes but I've never seen one....
  18. Jacques
    And how does he do it?
  19. Jacques
    I'm not a collector, I'm only interested in knowledge.
  20. Jacques
    Thanks, just goes to show that you should always check whether what you read or are told is relevant or not.
  21. Jacques
    That's because you haven't understood it, even though it's very clear.
  22. Jacques
    That's bother me, it's named as tachi and it has a typical naginata naoshi sugata. If Jussy could check ?
  23. Jacques
    Yes, but they're talking about nakago. A naginata can be made in the naginata naoshi style, as Kanzan Sato says in his article. Once again, nothing can prove the contrary
  24. Jacques
    It's impossible to know. It would have to be documented (the same naginata before and after) by the craftsman who did the work. A kissaki is not like a nakago, where there are clues showing that it has been suriage. The mune is polished and burnished, with no trace of alteration. A true naginata naoshi Description says the nakago is suriage.
  25. Jacques
    The problem is that the term naginata naoshi includes both real naginata naoshi and those made in style (see Kanzan Sato's article).
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