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Thks a lot, really. See you around

We had few books and we made some research to try to understand the origin of this tanto. But yes i will buy some others it s a good advice , it s very pleasant to study how Japanese swordsmith were so talented and how they built katana which are nothing else than historic treasure. Have a nice day

Hi Yes i agree again about the yasurime. I need to study more and more about all of this. Anyway, thanks for yours answers. It's great to receive some help. Have a nice day.

Hi, thanks for your answer. It seems so easy for you to see it's a fake, it was so hard for me to find these different informations about kanji :-) I was thinking it could be a fake, but how can you know it's chinese...damn i need more knowledge :-) Could you give me some details like the ones who show you this one is a fake please? i would like to be able to recognise faster and better a fake next time if i had to find another " Japanese blade" please? thanks again

Hello, i don't know if i posted this topic in the correct place, so excuse me if i was wrong. I came to ask your help about a Tanto i have for a long time. I wanted to clean it and when i disassembled the tsuka, i saw some kanji on Nakago. You can see them on pictures. Well on one side we can see the kanji Genroku ni nen. It could mean it could be a blade from the second year of the genroku period so 1689. On the other side, 3 kanji could mean Matsu da. I don't know what it could be....a Mei? i didn't find any swordsmith with this name. There was a clan called matsuda but it was active 100 years before genroku period. So i begin to think this is a copy with false kanji. My knowledge is poor so i came to ask your help if you can find or share some informations or i you have the answer confirm me it s a false one or not. Thanks a lot.