tbonesullivan

Most of what I deal with are Showato, which is what the majority of "Bring-Backs" are. Lot of oil-tempering, to completely machine made. Thankfully I was able to get a close up look at some real blades over the years.

Well... raw copper is definitely up. Sadly one of my other loves is brass instruments, and they just keep getting more and more expensive due to material costs.

Might make sense to get the whole thing translated. Looks to be a great historical piece!

Is it normal for the Bo-hi to extend all the way through the Nakago like that? Or is that just a sign that the sword was shortened? I've seen some swords where the bo-hi goes into the Nakago, but not off the end like that. I have seen an older sword with the Bo-Hi extending into the kissaki, though I don't know if it was attributed correctly.

Well, hello again. I joined back on July 9th, but it looks like the forum must have had a hiccup, as I can't find any posts started around that time. I wish I could remember my introduction from last time. I also got some great responses and information regarding books and reference material. Anyway, I'm a big Japanese edged weapon fan from New Jersey, and hope to attend meetings at the New York Token-Kai. They haven't announced a meeting since Jun 30th, so I guess they are on break for the summer, when it's not deadly hot in Manhattan. I hope to learn a lot and gain a much bigger appreciation of Nihonto. I also do have to deal with them sometimes for my job, so being able to use the right terminology to describe them is key. Thankfully any I deal with are 20th Century in Military Fittings, or already identified when we get them.

I read the thread, and it indicated that for green papers, which office it was performed at was important, as it was mainly the branch offices that produced questionable attributions. I'm unfortunately too green to read the origami. Anyway, I found the auction, and it shows the item location to be in Hungary, which would indicate why it hasn't been returned for a more recent shinsa.