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Awesome, thank you for pulling up the photos, Ian!

Thank you. Let me add more photos one-by-one due to data limit restrictions.

Hi, my grandfather in law recently passed away and left behind a wakizashi in handachi fittings. It belonged to his samurai ancestor. But he was never interested to trace the history of the blade passed down the family. So we have no idea what happened to the pair Katana. If it’s out there, could the community help throw out feelers for its potential whereabouts? The blade was forged by Yamato Daijo Fujiwara Masanori. But the distinct appearance of the kojiri-gashira and Kabuto-gane , etched with waves plus the human menuki motif is what I am hoping to locate. The samurai was from Niigata and was stationed in Aizu castle. So if anyone here in the community lives in, or has contacts in the area, your help would be greatly appreciated.

Hello, by chance does anyone still have any photos of Lot 555 from that auction?

Hello, I’m looking for a study group or mentor to learn appreciation from in the Los Angeles area. is the Gardena Token Kai still regularly meeting? and Could you please advise any phone number or email contact to reach out to? thank you.

Hello all, new to the forum and have no knowledge of appraisal aside from research done the past couple of weeks. But here are my guesses: #1 Considering the long nagasa, koshi zori sugata, and ko-choji? hamon, would have originally guessed it is a Bizen school sword from the Nanbokucho era. It's hard for me to see, but I think it has ayasugi-hada, so I am now guessing it is a shinto sword made by Gassan Sadakazu during the Edo period. #2 After looking at so many Shoshu style swords, it feels like the closest with that larger kissaki that has kind of a wide taper, and it has a suguha hamon with kin-tsuji and saka-ashi. It looks very similar to Fujiwara Masahiro's work so my guess is it's his work from the keicho shinto era. #3 It has a slim shinogi ji, notare midare hamon, and also appears similar to Yamato Uda school style. It has a deep sori and 3 mekugi ana. I guess it is an Uda Kunifusa.