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Another orphan looking for either a good quality plain nanako kashira or something with just a little gold on a nanako ground sorry the photos wash out the richness of this item. This is a 19th Century fuchi with slightly raised edges and a good rich dark nanako background and gold fan decorations in finer nanako cartouches.Fairly Good quality work probably Gotō school but unsigned. Regards

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Thanks Ian,with all due respect What I actually said was "So where do we stand with this sword then, it's not worth the asking price as its unverified, not Jo Saku and the mei is all wrong?" There is the question mark you left out of my quote.

Regret that I was only interested in the fuchi kashira. Regretfully I missed it!

So where do we stand with this sword then, it's not worth the asking price as its unverified, not Jo Saku and the mei is all wrong? Thank you

Can we see the workmanship Marc?

Excellent thanks for your help everyone . I'll move it over to the for sale section. £250 about right?. It's not perfect it's been fitted so some small dints.

Thank you. Is that gotō, a side school of gotō or copying goto. I'm going to move it to the for sale site I just don't know how to value it. Regards Adam

Brilliant thank you so much. Thats enough to try to find out the who's

Rotated it.

Upside down?

Hi all, if someone could help me along the road to understanding these three this would be perfect. One is something ICHI? Two is masamune on the right not sure on left and what are the mirrored last kanji? Three I cannot work out at all. Sorry to be a burden. I'm not yet skilled enough.

I've only just realised that one of my older wakizashi swords has the menuki on the wrong side, wrong position for right handed use. History has taught us in many cultures that the use of the left hand was not desirable and people were either ostracised or taught in secret to work with the right hand. What was the Japanese cultural view on lefties? Would swords be worn on the right for a lefty or was this a two short sword fighting style of perhaps one either side? Thank you

Hi I really need some help. I've got this set of fuchi-kashira that I've removed from a tsuka as I'm putting on a nicer set of FK. Whilst I know where I am with most schools and styles I'm always on the back foot with Gotō type fittings. I hate to Say it but I just find the style not to my taste. So before I sell these on the NMB what are they? Some wannabe goto copies or perhaps one of the offshoots? Appreciate any help I can get. Thank you Adam

Thank you. Very much appreciated.

If it had a date where would it be located? Is it a useful book or not really? Thank you for your translation BTW

Hello. Could anyone please tell me what the title of this 1964 book is, who the author may be and what it says on the front and spine? I'll then move it into the for sale section. Thank you Adam

Thank you Yas I think that's exactly what the theme is.???? Peter I'm not sure that the mei is meant to emulate Yakoya Soyo. I've seen a few gimei and they do try to copy his style of signature. This seems to be a proud artisan with confident hand signing in his own name and Kao (A different Soyo perhaps ) . Or the Soyo may be an honorary attribute "nod in the direction of“and the Kao is the artists stamp. Even the style is not traditional yakoya Soyo. Can there be a way to identify the Kao? Any thoughts? I believe It's quite reasonable skill level. There's some detail in hand not visualised in the photos like the waterfall spray is tiny gold flecks .thank you

Thank you Barry. Reading between the lines you have given me the answer and going into Gotō and deeper is a hornets nest I'm not sticking my finger in. Thank you Adam

Apologies, I would just like a second opinion on this mei. I believe it's Gotō Denjō but it seems wrong to me when I look to the workmanship I expect more from this master. Could you please offer an opinion Thank you Adam

Hi I wanted to start a new thread of items that never quite got finished or the rush orders in life. First is a tsuba that didn't quite get completed a part of the chiselling in the design has been left incomplete . Second a kashira where a small part of the Inlay didn't get done near the bottom. Regards Adam

Hi I'm trying to work out the theme as the title suggests. This is a copper tsuba 80x90x4mm Is it the tree poets? Seems to be designed for collecting rather than mounting but it could be I'm wrong. Is it perhaps the poet Sogi (1421-1502) and his major disciples Botanka Shohaku (1443-1527) and Saiokuken Socho (1448-1532) who composed one of the most famous of all renga to honor the memory of Emperor Go-toba (1180-1239), whose spring tanka written at Minase (the site of his detached palace) served as their initial inspiration. Any thoughts? Thank you Adam

It's not a crushing damage as you would have equal and opposing damage the opposite edge of the tsuba. It seems to point to it being impact damage based on the laws of engineering. But wow what an impact. So someone was cleavering with something held in a serated jaw clamp and got the timing so wrong the tsuba impacted the metal clamp. Bit "out there" but it looks like that's a possibility. Regards Adam

To add to the above good shape may be compromised by suriage or osuriage certainly as we have to guess how much blade may have been lost. So a tachi with a wonderful sugata that was greatly shortened may have become almost straight. So does this then suggest that only ubu or slightly suriage blades could be recognised as quality? Regards Adam