Hartigan

Thank you for the warm welcome Jean. The one that I just purchased is attributed to Keishinsai Naomasa, you can see pictures of it on Andy Quirt's website here: http://www.nihonto.us/SHINSHINTO%20KATANA.htm

Hello everyone, my name is Björn and I'm from Iceland. I got a bit ahead of myself before posting in this thread since I´m new here. I've been fascinated by swords ever since I was young and have been collecting swords for the past decade, I used to do some fencing in my younger years and have recently taken up HEMA. Japanese swords have always fascinated me and just this year I finally bought my first katana so I'm very excited. Iceland is unfortunately not a good place for sword collectors since swords are illegal and you have to get a permit from the police commissioner. It took me a month just to get the permit for the one I purchased so I'm still waiting on it to ship, hopefully I will be able to take some nice pictures to share with you when it arrives.

Thank you for letting me know, I'm new to the forum so this is very helpful.

Thank you for the info, I should mention that the piece that I bought is not signed but is a mumei. I bought it from Andy Quirt so you can see it here on his website: http://www.nihonto.us/SHINSHINTO%20KATANA.htm

I just recently bought a katana made by Keishinsai Naomasa and I've been doing some research on him online, I know that he was a student of Taikei Naotane and that he worked for the Soma clan but not much else. I've seen some posts about him on here so I was wondering if anyone here knows more about him or knows of any sources that mention him?