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Sold 

Should have just responded. It is yours. I will call you in a few moments.

Well she’s on eBay. 2000 if a forum member wants it

Apologies but I mistyped in the above. Papers are Nthk-npo

Dropping to 3000 before it heads to eBay

Listing a massively healthy and wonderful naginatanaoshi which the NBTHK attributed to Bizen Tadamitsu. This Tadamitsu

naginatanaoshi has a substantial weight, with a kasane of over 8mm and the ji is completely flawless. The jihada is a fine ko-itame with ji-nie and utsuri. The hamon ranges from a gonome choji in the lower to a very wide gonome midare in the monouchi. The sugata is quite beautiful, and this was originally a much longer naginata in addition to being osuriage.

In shirasaya with a gold and silver foil habaki.

Nagasa: 45.4Cm

Motohaba: 2.8CM

Sakihaba: 2.2cm

Kasane: 0.85cm

I purchased this from Ray singer several years ago and have loved every moment it has lived with me. I contemplated the sale a couple years ago and I’m lucky that Ray gave me permission to use his pics, description etc. The original listing can still be found under reference on his outstanding site.

Unfortunately, the world has dictated It is time for it to find a new home. It is currently priced at under what I paid for it and look forward to hearing your feedback about the potential sale. 
 

4000 obo

Bunch of pics of the blade.  I was considering selling it but can't bring myself to do it especially in the current climate.. just love it

I appreciate it. A shame there is no generation attribution. To assume take the era and Smith to figure it out?  If so assume 2nd generation?

I apologize. I can't seem to figure out how to make the orientation correct

Wondering if anyone can help me with translation of this paper. Specifically looking for hopefully a date range or a specific generation it was made.. As always thanks for any help

Honestly I have been a member for several years and have made several donations but have never even known purchasing a membership was an option. How does one go about such a thing?

From what I have found personally keep an eye on the for sale section on this forum. Also Ray Singer that is a member has a website with some amazing things reasonably priced

Well done! For a first attempt impressive 

600

 For a mixture of the awesome idea to give a donation to the site and the above

550 it is

So a friend of mine just purchased this on eBay.  Ofcourse I told him eBay is a frightening place and best to steer clear but so it goes. He sent me some pictures of the listing and was wondering what u guys think of it.. He paid 1100 for it before I knew he bought it.. I have referred him to the for sale section here for future purchases. It is 60 cm so not sure if it would be an uchigatana or an o-wakizashi.  It doesn't seem like the worst buy but eBay is just such a scary place

Thanks for the replies.. a pic of the "mei"

Yep that's the guy..  Of course I'm weary of eBay in general but thought it was a good looking little blade so offered 300 and he had it listed for 2000. Needless to say did not expect him to accept it. Mei is Hasebe Kunishige so that checks off the gimei part of the collection

Made a silly lowball offer on this wakizashi that to my surprise was accepted.. Looks interesting to my relatively untrained eyes. Surely a gimei blade but weirdly happy to have a inexpensive forgery in my collection. Wondering thoughts about it