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Hi, to me it looks like the sword could be in a similar shape to a Gensuito.

Hi, I say. Kanbun on first Kotetsu school on second Kotetsu shodai on third

3rd gen Kunisada (Izumi no kami) and Kiho Yoshitada are two different persons.

Why didnt he paper it if it was legit? Anything can be sold with cut-throat advertising. Come and buy canned porridge! Chinese, Korean or Japanese what do you think?

Can you highlight on the paper where NBTHK mention Ko Uda. I can only read the mei part not the bit under it. If someone is wrong its me.

Nagasa 65cm and a bit short nakago dont you think it might be a sword from Sengoku era?

I think the nakago looks too dark for late shinshinto and what is going on in this area?

If they are daisho shouldnt they be on the same paper? Is there more information about the koshirae?

A daisho is only a big and small sword nothing else matching or not, carried by a samurai. Today we dont know wich swords were carried together with the exception of dated blades and matching koshirae. Thats why its so much fokus on koshirae and dated blades. All types of daisho are true. This is how I see it until there is more information.

Hi Dan, I read somewhere the Japanese prefered to copy chinese axheads with their own steel but also make it look as it was a cast piece. But I cant remember where I read it. So I guess at least one axe was imported from China to Japan. Tony

The Iron and Steel Museum (鉄の歴史館, Tetsu no Rekishikan) commemorates the history of the iron industry in Kamaishi City. Magnetite was discovered in the mountains around Kamaishi in the 18th century, and Japan's first blast furnace was subsequently constructed there in the 19th century, marking the start of modern iron production in the country. Cast iron is for farmers, plows etc.. Tony

Hi Dan, here some more info for you. The primary advantage of the early blast furnace was in large scale production and making iron implements more readily available to peasants.[30] Cast iron is more brittle than wrought iron or steel, which required additional fining and then cementation or co-fusion to produce, but for menial activities such as farming it sufficed. By using the blast furnace, it was possible to produce larger quantities of tools such as ploughshares more efficiently than the bloomery. In areas where quality was important, such as warfare, wrought iron and steel were preferred. Nearly all Han period weapons are made of wrought iron or steel, with the exception of axe-heads, of which many are made of cast iron.[31] Blast furnaces were also later used to produce gunpowder weapons such as cast iron bomb shells and cast iron cannons during the Song dynasty. Blast furnace- Wikipedia

It went from this nice colour to that dark, well dark finish. I think the original polish was more close to the smiths intentions so stay away from non professional polishers. In future you will save money and get a better polish from start.

But if some important swords were lost and not burnt and burried in the rubble why didnt they report them missing maybe the Japanese have a longer list we dont know about or the emperor just didnt want to put them on the missing list for some reason? According to Yamanaka there are many blades missing. Now I will stop:)