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If I understood correctly, you are looking to see some swords made for or used by Japanese shogunate. Well here are some: The first one, Monoyoshi, made by Sadamune, used by Tokugawa Ieyasu. The rumour was when Tokugawa went into battle with this Wakizashi, he would always win. Passed down to his ninth son, Yoshinao, Lord of Owari. Second one, a tachi attributed to Aoe Sadaji. It was originally 75cm but it was shortened to 60.3cm. It was named "Nikkari", comes from the legend that after it slashed a ghost who was smiling, turned out next morning a stone pagoda had been cut into two. Dedicated to Hideyoshi by Nagahide. And Hideyoshi 's son Hideyori presented it to Takatsugu. Third one, the one and only long blade made by Awataguchi Yoshimitsu, master of tanto..They called this blade Ichigo Hitofuri(the one and only lifetime sword). It was owned by Ashikaga family during the Sengoku period. Later on it was dedicated to Hideyoshi and as he was short, he had the sword shortened to 69cm(it was originally 86cm) It was burned in the great fire of Meiriki but Tokugawa family had Echizen Yasutsugu recover it. Later on, Tokugawa Mochinaga presented it to Emperor Komei. Has been passed on as an imperial property since then. Fourth one, Tokugawa Ieyasu's favorite sword, made by Sukezane of Bizen. Originally belonged to Kato Kiyomasa, presented it as his congratulations on his daughter's marriage to the tokugawa. And the last but not least, Dojigiri Yasutsuna, belonged to Minamoto no Yorimoto. Built at the end of the Heian period, had been inherited in the Ashikaga Shogun..passed on to Oda Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu. It wasn't used in any battle, but the cutting quality had been proven by cutting six corpses in the Edo period.

Ok..same sergeant...same sword? So it's either two small soldiers or..just kidding..huge sword.. @Jussi Ekholm @Bruce Pennington

many here are trying to help you but you get defensive for the reasons I'm not sure why.. Most of them are way more experienced than you are but you still don't agree with some of them.. Also, I'm not speculating, circumstances doesn't matter. It was out of polish. It doesn't have any papers. It was in a sword shop instead of an auction. It was sold to a tourist. All for a reason..Sword dealers are not idiots, you now.. No offense but If I were you, I would really invest in books instead of a new sword.

Instead of taking a chance, why don't you post its pics and ask for help before buying it?

I can see that you only want to hear good things about your sword and I think you are a bit obsessed with it, which is totally fine. But, please remind the fact that this sword was sold at a sword shop in Japan. Which means shop already knew what this sword was and there was a reason why this sword was sold to a "tourist" instead to a Japanese connoisseur&collector. As you stated many times, this sword spoke to you We get that. Sadly, the swords I own don't speak to me but I speak with them...The only swords are speaking to me are the ones I can't afford to buy.

Hey there Jussi...I've used picture of a regular 64cm katana in shirasaya and scaled it to match what he's holding..So what he holds is pretty much average size Katana.

Yup..very small soldier holding a Katana. I don't think it's a tachi. That motohaba is at least 3.2cm. I bet it's a Gendaito. Kanenaga maybe..Kanefusa? Hmm..I think I want to find it. (if it's not destroyed)

Yes Nobukuni and Kanenori.. Thank you @ROKUJURO @Ray Singer and @Mark

Thank you Jean. I believe it's the flash of the camera.

@Spartancrest Here are some close up images.. After taking a closer look part of me says that this is a nanban tsuba.

It probably had a second(before the other 2) mekugi hole below suriaged tip of the nakago.

@Spartancrest Yes, but it also looked as its been hammered after rim removal. To give a better shape, smoother edges maybe? I don’t know just thinking out loud. But you are probably right

These are great!! You really need to turn this into an article! It is going to be very valuable

I’ll take some better pics when i go back home. I came to Istanbul for vacation also, i can’t see the john voight pic! It just says image.png

@Spartancrest what do you think about the shape..perhaps a mon? @Infinite_Wisdumb indeed!

Wow @Spartancrest!! This is some academic level work. I guess someone drilled it to see what's inside or tried to make a necklace I'm not sure. So this is a suriage tsuba.. from a wakizashi to a tanto Thank you very much for your hard work!

Can anyone recognize the shape or school of this tsuba? I'm stuck.

@Baba Yaga You clearly didn't even read the question. He's asking about Nagashi lines and you are talking about yasurime. Lets imagine the question was Yasurime...How could he able to search it without knowing the word? On top of that, what's wrong with helping out a new member?

Thank you! Happy to help

There are no stupid questions John..

Had to go through works of the disciples of Masamune. Lucky I guess

Possibly?

Hiromitsu