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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

A user on Reddit bought an abandoned house in Nagano and found some magazines while cleaning out. He found 70 of them but scanned 6 so I though I should share it. https://issuu.com/ww2japan edit: sorry if I posted on the wrong section.

So true.