Munetsugu

An Exceptional Koto Nakajima Rai Katana with NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon Touken Origami in Shirasaya with Koshirae. Nakajima Rai worked out of settsu province and was founded by the legendary Rai Kuninaga. They made extremely high quality work into the nanbokucho period and are known for their very close likeness to the mainline Rai school. There a many blades like this one papered as Juyo. Nagasa - 62.5cm sori - 1.0cm mekugi - 3 Motihaba - 3.0cm Sakihaba - 2.3cm Motokasane - 0.8cm Jidai: Koto Nanbokucho Province: settsu Hamon: suguha with nagaashi Jigane: itame Boshi: hakikake komaru Habaki: gold foil single Mounting: shirasaya Koshirae: Kawarinuri saya full dragon fittings Certificate: [N.B.T.H.K] tokubetsu hozon. Bargain price, in really good Japanese polish which is a fantastic investment. I spotted another Nakajima Rai blade come up for auction currently in Japan and at 20k.. So I think a very fair price listed to sell. £8500 UK Based. Happy to ship worldwide and if you are in United Kingdom or can travel to, you are always welcome to visit and see the katana in hand before purchase. I also have many well respected collectors in the nihonto world who can vouch for me. This is one which I can assure the first person to view will buy. The Jigane is exceptional and extremely hard to photograph properly. The pictures don't do it justice, it looks even better in hand! I have plenty of photos of this sword so please pm me if your interested and I can send them all over. Thank you. Chuck.

Good afternoon, So I did a stall at the Birmingham arms fair this weekend just gone and upon begrudgingly selling a lovely wakizashi I've had since I started collecting. I took a px on it with a quite nice looking tanto.. I have no idea what it is as of yet as I've just starting looking to kantei it however there's a few kantei points which are putting me in a couple of directions so thought it would be fun to put it on here and see what people's thoughts are. Mitsu-mune is one of the things which was noticed. The hada on this is fantastic in hand and very hard to capture on camera but I've tried and have uploaded a couple of pictures. It's very even and well distributed along the blade. Suguha hamon, with very nice clear and even Nioi. Nakago I think looks shinto, and has feint kiri (horizontal) yasurime marks. Unokubi zukuri shape Nagasa 28.2cm Shinogi-ji near munemachi 9mm Would be great to hear peoples opinions on this one. Thank you🙂 Kind regards, Chuck.

Yeah thats Peter Yorke, interestingly I got told he didnt have great pieces to then find out he had one of the largest and best collections in the UK! a good friend of mine was freinds with him and has seen some incredible pieces in his collection. Ive heard of some of the swords etc hes got and one thing I can say, is that is going to be one hell of a sale, id go as far as to say its probably going to be one of the best uk sales in a very very long time. Im looking forward to seeing what comes up. Will post the link on here for everyone to brose when it goes live at the auction house..

Price drop to £600. If it doesn't sell at this il take the ad down and keep it as it does look nice in hand really nice dark chocolate colour patination.

bump, drop to £250.. ridiculously cheap for a nice kinko tsuba!

Found some pieces I want to buy so price drop £320

Great idea.. makes it a lot easier for people to search for the area they collect. Change well welcomed!

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For sale is an iron tsuba signed Bushu Masatoshi with water wheel and ivy theme. Really nice chocolate coloured iron in hand and nicely carved. Price £450 Happy to post worldwide or you're welcome to collect if in the uk. Thank you.

If only they were yasutaka.. I've been keeping an eye out for a fk set to match this😆 so close..🙂

Thank you very much! It appears @Kurikata has picked up a very similar one to mine..

Picked up an interesting kamakura-bori (I think) tsuba, would I be correct in thinking the brass inlay would be a later addition? Interested to get peoples thoughts on it. Patina looks very old and nice. Thank you🙂

Next up is a wild horses motif kinko tsuba. Based in Hampshire UK, you're welcome to collect if local or I'm happy to post worldwide. Price £370 Please check my other ads for more Tosogu.