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  1. Definetively it's a +1 here. I there was in 2018, and there will be again.
  2. This is one of the high5japan auctions on ebay. I think he has/had some gimei and expensive medium-low quality papered pieces.
  3. I agree with Brian and most of others here. Ponzio is surely not a togishi and he has not the ability to correctly polish a nihonto. But the worst thing, i think, is that this way it could incetivate dozens or houndreds of ponzio. And this is a shame for nihon token since untrained polisher has not to be the answer to the professional togishi lack in Europe. JP i will send a pm to you too.
  4. Here someone correctly said that not only skills are necessary but high quality stones too. it'is right. I would add that nihonto knowledge is fundamental too. If a polisher is poor in kantei, he will be poor in togi too... To polish means first of all to study the sword, his creator, his school. It means to to be excellent in kantei. Unfortunally Ponzio till semptember 2017 demostrated was able neither to correctly read a torokusho and a nakago. His cv is only selfmade, and honestly report nothing interesting. Meanwhile Massimo Rossi is, on the other side first of all an estimated nihonto student who study tokens from 30+ years about. He was the only european to had ever partecipated to 3 different NBTHK togi contests, in 2009 (on suggestion by Yoshindo Yoshihara), 2010 and 2018... and to achieve 3 different nyusen. He polishes swords for Yoshindo Yoshihara here in Europe, and collaborates with some european museums. In may 2020 he had a slot in Japan Art Expo in Utrech to hold a conference on togi: https://japanartexpo.com/sword-related-presentation/ (event cancelled due covid pandemic). ...so please do not spend Rossi name near to Ponzio, they are white vs black, thanks.
  5. So april 1972, thank You so much Sir! I would never have understood it by myself. Really Thank You so much!
  6. I did some try: showa water + rat = 1972/1973? i'm not friendly with eto/zodiac calendar... 😥 could you add the kanji You think for date? 昭和丙子年....???
  7. wow, thank You Mr SteveM! very much appreciated!!!
  8. Steve a lot of thank You. it helped a lot. It is actually a wakizashi of 55,1 cm about. so i think you almost centered the point except for the shaku measurement which should be "ichi" or something equivalent. (it has a recent nbthk hozon which states 1 shaku, 8 sun, 1 bu. so at the time of sayagaki 2 bu cpuod be correct) perhaps last kanji could be "強" (=about)? for the date i assumed by confronting another one it could be summer of the horse year (showa era). What do you think? Sorry if i add more info only now, but i didn't want to influence someone.
  9. Hello to everyone, i'm facing some difficulties with the traslation of a part of this sayagaki: I think it should state nagasa, date of sayagaki and "Sato Kanzan wrote + kao". Someone could help me with at least the date part? Thanks in advance for your eventual try. Enrico
  10. Hello guys! it seems there will be a second attempt in 2020. but samurai art expo will rename into Japan art expo. someone has got more info? it will be nothing related to last year event?
  11. these are great deal. hope the best for you jean!
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