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I love the look of these silver platted fittings they are beautiful. Anyone who has one in there collection are very lucky.

Looks like a star under the Habaki to me. Do you have the sword in hand? If so removing the Habaki will give you an answer.

Do you have more photos of the blade and fittings for us to see?

I see what you are all saying now. So this was a signed Shawato and the Mei has totally been filed off too pass it off as an older looking Mumei. What a shame, it looks like a nice clean sword in pretty good condition. I think I may focus on collecting showato blades to help save/protect the less loved blade.

Thanks Mal, I will have a look at that article when I get home. Much appreciated 👍

That’s great information a lot more than what I started with so I am very appreciative....... Thank you all. It’s amazing the wealth of information found within this forum. 👍👍

Ooops…I found the other photo with the missing mei kanji. I must of overlooked it some how, sorry for the confusion. I’m sure this will help. Thankyou all.👍👍

Hi Bruno, yes the wrap was way to clean and thought it should of been on a bit tighter, felt a bit soft and loose in my hand. Thanks for your help

Thanks for all the replies it was very helpful. unfortunately I cannot get any better photos as the sword is not in my hands. I was thinking of making an offer to buy, however I may hold off in search of something a little better. I did like the blade but the Mei is messy and didn’t like the new wrap on handle. I’m in no hurry so will keep looking and pestering you all for info on future swords.

Hi, firstly I will apologise for the poor photos, they have been screen shot from an internet site. I had a look at this sword the other day but wasn’t able to take my own photos. I was told this Star stamped blade was made by Kanetomo and in pat 44 mounts. There seems to be a strange marking/scratching above the date mei ?? Not sure what or why it’s there but looks out of place. ( I have it circled in photos ) can anyone confirm that this is Kanetomo and what the date is? Also it looks like the handle has been re wrapped not 100% sure. Overall with my limited experience it was to me a nice blade. Any help would be greatly appreciated and once again sorry for terrible photos.

Great sword Tony. A Star stamped sword is on my want list, I looked at one the other day a pat44 in nice condition but yours is stunning… congratulations 👍👍

Thank you for all your help everyone, this is a great forum with an incredible amount of knowledge and information.

I rubbed in a bit of chalk to highlight the mei

It looks like it’s about 9.5cm from lower peg hole to notch at start of blade. I can’t remove the Habaki all the way, I don’t want to force it as it’s not my blade and don’t want to damage it so just pulled it down a bit. The mei does look just like the one Mat posted ( thank you Mat )

Thanks John, does this help? I added a couple off close up of the blade, using an IPhone ,so not the best. It has about 56cm (22 inches) of sharpened edge if that helps as well.