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No I have not seen that yari, thank you. It does look rather similar if a bit longer. I should probably specify what is throwing me off on the mura character. The connecting horizontal stroke has a hook on the end rather than the arrowhead like shape I have seen on every muramasa signature I have access too.

here are some additional photos

I recently received a yari from the Roald Knutsen auction. So I though I'd show a few pictures I'd taken of it. I am worried there might be areas of active rust, but I am not sure as nothing seemed to wipe off from the areas I suspect. I am also curious if anyone has seen this particular niji mei variant of muramasa, in particular the mura character. I would also like to know if anyone recognizes the bonji. I also want to know if anyone knows any good togishi that have a relatively short wait time and how best the contact them. As of right now its been cleaned of old oil with 99% isopropyl alcohol, re oiled, and stored in a ziplock vci bag as the old shirasaya is cracked. Sorry if this is a bit much as I wanted to keep this all in one thread.

here are the rest.

So I decided to take pictures of the boshi on the other side. Apologies for the background as the one I used previously happened to be dirty and this was kind of spontaneous. I suspect this boshi is ko maru with some nie or yaki kuzure. I tried my best to get a picture of the habuchi. These are the best pictures I could get.

here are some additional pictures

I figured I could include some pictures of the hamon and hada from the same session as the first boshi picture attempt. These were taken during golden hour using my phones macro focus. I personally love how the sword looks in this lighting. I also should add the sword seems to be tired.

here is an additional photo

here are the pictures I managed to get. I for the life of me can't get a picture of the habuchi past the hadori from this angle.

Small update on those photos. I tried and failed miserably. taking those type of photos seems to be well above my current photo taking skills. Having no tripod and only a phone camera probably doesn't help either.

sure I'll try to get the pictures during my next day off.

I can try when I have time. I am not very good at taking photos of nihonto and as I have said before I don't have a setup. I also have trouble getting the right angle of light to view the boshi on this side, let alone take a picture of it. I have confirmed its there, but its tricky. Also to clarify, what do you mean by normal picture?

its the hira zukuri wakizashi I bought from yahoo actions Japan from my previous posts. from what I saw while trying to take pictures of the sword it does not run off. I do not have a good photo set up or easy access to a dslr camera. This was taken outside during golden hour with sword in one hand phone in the other. best I can describe it is a ko maru with round tobiyaki that have attached themselves to the ko maru temper line. Here is a picture, from the same session, that sort of shows the buildup to and beginning of the boshi. edit: I've added a rough drawing of what the boshi looks like. sorry for the quality of the drawing I suck at drawing with a mouse.

This is a type of boshi I am not familiar with. It seems as though these sort of circular elements form the actual boshi line. This was the best picture I could take of it.

Thank you for the info Grey.