Ilovekatana

Thats good. I kept reading that you not get solvent on the nakago, so I was panicking a bit.

While cleaning and oiling my sword a small bit of isopropyl alcohol got on the tang( it had gotten on the latex glove I was wearing while holding the tang). I immediately wiped the nakago with a dry microfiber cloth to remove it. Am I good?

Interesting. I'll have to take another look at my swords nakago, but that might be what I'm seeing. Thank you.

I just looked closely at the other side the nakago. It doesn't have the the diagonal lines and is in standard kiri. So maybe it is from a previous polish. Edit: Also to add this is the same unpapered "soshu masahiro" from some of my previous posts

That makes sense. Thank you for the help.

I have a sword that I am currently trying to study and the yasurime on it has me confused. I can't figure out what type it is. The closest one to it I could find is kiri(what throws me off is the diagonal lines at the top). Here is a picture of the nakago with rough drawings of the yasurime.

Welp, I'll probably have to save for while to get one. Thank you for the info and extra references.

Thank you for the help. I don't really have a frame of reference for what something like this costs and having some kind of starting point helps.

I am curious how much a late nanbokucho soshu masahiro tanto would cost, specifically one papered hozon or the NTHK equivalent. The only example I could find that included a price was this one from 2015 (https://www.aoijapan...umei-soshu-masahiro/). I mostly want a sort of general price range so I know how much to save to purchase one.

In a sword I recently got there seems to be a dark area in the boshi and I don't know what it is. For one its only visible on certain angles under light. Also the temper line/lines around it are weird. Here are some pictures of it(apologies for the quality, this is hard to take a photo of with my phone). The blue lines are a rough approximation of the temper line to show how its kind of weird(the lines might connect at the kaeri, but I don't know for sure). Does anyone know what this might be?

2devnul, its a hira zukuri wakizashi(some of picture's angle shows the mune). As for how much I paid, excluding fees and shipping, was 76,000 yen.

Here are some more pictures.

Here are some pictures I took of the blade. Apologies for the the quality. The picture of the tang came from jauce.

I can try to take some pictures of it, but I can't guarantee that they will look good( I don't have easy access to a good camera/ setup and have almost no experience taking pictures of nihonto). As for the backstory, I was looking through yahoo auctions Japan via jauce and saw a sword I liked at my price range, bid on it, and won. Edit: the sword itself is unpapered and signed Sagami kuni junin Masahiro Saku. I plan to submit it to shinsa when I have the chance, hopefully to learn more about it(Such as if its a gimei or not).

@2devnul Yes thats what I was refering to. Brian, it doesn't appear on the other side. Thank you everyone for the help. I was really worried there was a crack.