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  1. DoTanuki yokai
    原 is my guess for the kanji. At first I also thought Gimei Rai kunitsugu but I think it is the 2nd kanji of Fujiwara and the blade is not earlier then edo.
  2. DoTanuki yokai
    They only want customers with overflowing pockets to buy some old dinosaur bones for millions that no museum in the world wanted to pay 50k for. I think we can be happy that our art field is so undervalued.
  3. DoTanuki yokai
    Just want to clarify that because it sounds a little misleading. Time does not open layers if the blade has ware it has it from the time when It was forged, maybe it is hidden underneath flawless layers but when it shows up after polish it was there from the beginning.
  4. DoTanuki yokai
    This thing has nearly the same dimensions and I tried to replicate the kamakura Tanto shape.
  5. DoTanuki yokai
    Muromachi Sengo Muramasa but I have no clue wich Generation. I can’t see the boshi or the Jinie and wouldn’t be surprised if it is Koyama Munetsugu
  6. DoTanuki yokai
    I think i see some gaps inside the Hitsuana and Nakagoana that could be signs of a multi layer construction or shadows of the overflowing cloisonne. I dont think it looks fire damaged with the new pictures but more like an early work but i really don`t know much about cloisonne. Here a picture that show the lines that could show the layers. (some of the new pictures show it better i think)
  7. DoTanuki yokai
    I tried to look at it but the pictures kill my eyes Seriously it looks like the Tsuba melts with the background and other LSD Stuff. I cannot say that i can provide any useful information with clear pictures but i certainly cannot with this .
  8. DoTanuki yokai
    Can you show the other side of the Nakago ? Im still not sure if it is shortned or made in this style. Maybe you can see if the Hamon stops at the Hamachi or runs into the Nakago ?
  9. DoTanuki yokai
    Konuka Hada is more about the Jinie that is not visible in this pictures and less about the welding pattern.
  10. DoTanuki yokai
    Maybe the missing Yokote and the thin Mune after the Bo-Hi I would say make this Naginata Zukuri.
  11. DoTanuki yokai
    Got it from Sweden, it’s called SKÅDIS. You can buy as many hooks as you need. (I did not buy enough hooks).
  12. DoTanuki yokai
    Had a crazy thought and the NBTHK tries to preserve the blade as it is with this paper.
  13. DoTanuki yokai
    I would say depending on how the blade was made ware can also appear on both sides especially on the edge. What is on the blade would be Haware in my opinion.
  14. DoTanuki yokai
    Thanks for this little exercise. Maybe I would have noticed the orientation of the tail when I would have looked at more examples of his work. What could be the reason/meaning for the tail pointing upwards or is this purely for aesthetics?
  15. DoTanuki yokai
    The Art of Tsukamaki is available on Amazon, you can read it for free with Kindle Unlimited Abo that offers a free trial month i think. But if he likes it he should buy it, it is only 26€ and worth it in my opinion.
  16. DoTanuki yokai
    I think you mixed things up suguha boshi is Shinto and keeping the pattern of the hamon also in the Boshi is Koto.
  17. DoTanuki yokai
    Left Dragon skipped leg day ? I would like to see better pictures of both but they already look very different and i dont like the radius of curvature of the left ones body. Edit: I added a Ruler to the picture to show something else I have noticed.
  18. DoTanuki yokai
    Merchants weren’t allowed to wear Katana so this problem is more a Wakizashi problem.
  19. DoTanuki yokai
    I think it does not look really old or at least in the pictures it looks like the blade is healthy without the typical strong tapering that old blades show from many polishes where the blade starts.
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    Wakisashi

    DoTanuki yokai replied to Hen67's topic in Nihonto

    I can imagine that the the 2nd kanji could be a cut off Mitsu, anyway looks like a nice sword from Nanbokucho or Keicho period . Maybe some close ups of the blades tip and other hamon activities can give a direction wich Kuni(Mitsu) this could be.
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    Ainu Sword

    DoTanuki yokai replied to Ed's topic in Nihonto

    Some weeks ago I came across this Ainu study group/museum on Instagram. They even motion capture traditional Ainu dance rituals but I don’t know much more.
  22. DoTanuki yokai
    I found them on Ando Yusukes Instagram Account, he is the smith at the Bizen Osafune sword Museum.
  23. DoTanuki yokai
    This pictures show how broken and flawed blades become the core steel of new swords. But also the broken swords were made by the smith.
  24. DoTanuki yokai
    At least the big one in the rim looked for me like someone put a screwdriver into a gap I think you guys will be right but I always think they had a lot of time to take damage from various sources.
  25. DoTanuki yokai
    Dale i thought the "jagged casting" parts in the ebay Tsuba could also be the result of delaminations in the iron of the tsuba. I think the picture is not good enough to be sure
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