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  1. 1) You'll have a chance to see the Ogasawara-ryu Yabusame, first time ever in the Nordic Countries! http://www.harjulaproduction.com/aaa/spirit/ 2) There's the Spirit of Budo display in the National Museum; http://www.nba.fi/fi/kansallismuseo/nayttelyt/vaihtuvat#budo http://www.jpf.go.jp/e/culture/exhibit/oversea/traveling/budo.html 3) We shall also organise a nihonto collector meeting on June 1st: Kantei excercise, hands-on blade viewing, items for sale... Please let me know if you plan to attend; for safety reasons we only allow people with proper knowledge of nihonto handling to enter the meeting room. BR, Veli
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    Gimei or not?

    Am I correct to assume that the answer is located around the 住-kanji? Veli
  3. Looks to be sooo close... look at the mekugi ana placement... the mei pics are too low resolution to really see the details, but at least this is not an obvious gimei. Great find at that price, gimei or not! Veli
  4. Good work so far Laurent! This is more complicated, however; I do not see Fujiwara... Veli
  5. Great photos, as always Considering that pointed and highly regular sanbonsugi - like the one seen in your photos - evolved after nidai Kanemoto... could it be that later generation Kanemoto adopted some traits of the famous Nosada? So this example could be Nosada's view how he thought the sanbonsugi should look like and not a direct copy of Nidai Kanemoto's work? Veli
  6. Oite Bushu Kanda Yasunori Tsukuru??? 於武州神田保則造 Veli
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    Sword Kantei

    One more example: http://sanmei.com/contents/media/O111235_S1300_PUP_E.html Hoanh, this blade has some strong and distinct features, a very nice addition to your collection! Thanks for the exercise! BR, Veli
  8. Please note the time limit for keeping the blade on hold at Aoi-Art, as specified on their website: "Please contact us by order form if you find an item that you would like to order from our website.We will hold item only a week until we confirm your payment." This means the buyer should proceed with the bank transfer almost immediately after asking to put the blade on hold, since money transfer takes several days. I have purchased 5 blades and one tsuba from Tsuruta-san. All very smooth and pleasant transactions. BR, Veli
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    Sword Kantei

    A wild guess based on the way the hada/chikei is standing out: BR, Veli
  10. Hi Uwe! This should work: http://nihontofinland.com/ Veli
  11. Gabriel, I agree with the tips you mentioned! If I should add something it is the use of the remote trigger or delay trigger to prevent camera vibrations. Locking the mirror up in SLRs also is a good idea. Uwe, on my webpage you find a set of pictures for each blade, illustrating sugata, hada, boshi, nakago and hamon. I have concentrated in developing the hamon photography, since I felt it was the hardest part, in case one wants to show the whole blade length in one picture.. 95% of published blade pictures show nioiguchi obscured or totally hidden by hadori. Combining all the beautiful features of nihonto in a single photo is a gargantuan, not to say impossible task, and I have not aimed at that. Does anybody have any further tips about the light source? A super-bright pointlike source would be optimal... Veli
  12. Hi Hoanh! Well, I did not move the light source too much. That way there's only a small difference in the brightness of the two photos when you look farther away from the lamp reflection. Then the secret is to use a big fuzzy erase tool to soften the boundary between data from the two images. Despite of these tricks, you can see the brightness variations in my photo, so it is something I should improve further... Furthermore, the light source should be as small as possible (a naked bulb). Any suggestions for improvements are welcome! Blade photography is time-consuming work and every improvement is hard-earned, but I am having a good time trying it! BR, Veli
  13. I finally experimented with Photoshop layer merging of two similar blade pictures with different lighting. This way the whole yakiba of a 64 cm nagasa gendaito can be photographed rather sharply and without lamp reflections. I still need to improve the photo quality, however. Full resolution: http://files.kotisivukone.com/nihontofinland.com.kotisivukone.com/Kiyokuni/yakiba6.jpg Veli
  14. Hmm... the menuki was fastened with resin and/or thread around the narrow flower stem and was damaged during the removal? Veli
  15. I confess to be an admirer of Kanetsune ha, due to their tight ko-itame hada, at best being quite outstanding compared to many other Mino schools. See here what I mean: http://www.tetsugendo.com/swords/Tan_115_kanetsune.html Veli
  16. This has been a valuable discussion and great learning experience indeed. I am fully aware of my nonexisting knowledge about the art of polishing, but I'd like to explain why I personally feel somewhat negative about acid polishing. During my engineering career, I have sometimes performed chemical etching on metals and semiconductors. The rate of etching is not uniform on a certain material, but depends also on the crystal lattice type and orientation. Carbon steel is not a single crystal, but contains several types of crystals, the sizes of which are usually measured in micrometers. Now the etching rate depends on how strongly the atoms are bonded into the crystal by electrostatic forces. This bonding force is probably different for martensite and austenite, but more importantly, the force is weakest and the etching rate is most rapid in the boundary areas between crystals, because the metal lattice is least organised in there. Whereas mechanical polishing cannot generate penetrating, narrow, microscopic crevices in the metal surface, chemical etching may do just that. If the depth of these crevices is very small, like a micrometer, they probably are of no consequence, but... Diluting the acid slows down the process and makes it easier to control but does not change the fundaments... Just my 2 c... Veli
  17. Sorry, too tired to translate, but could be something like: "Shichuan standard fake sword factory. Premium quality 100% real fake katana" Veli
  18. Wow, I may slowly start to understand, thank you so much Veli
  19. Kunitaro san, thank you very much for the eye-opening expert comment! What I have understood earlier with my almost nonexisting knowledge about polishing, is that what people call Sashikomi polish does utilize jizuya/hazuya and kanahada nugui, but the distinct final outlining of the Hamon pattern with hadori is left undone. The use of nitric acid sounds horrible! So is there a mistake with terminology, and the real sashikomi does not utilize kanahada nugui at all? BR, Veli
  20. Yup, but unfortunately I do not have the yari at hand, its owner lives in Central Finland. Furthermore, with the yari in hand, there was not much more to see... almost a hopeless case but I think it could have been recognized if there would have been a clue leading to an oshigata to compare. But now I think it may not be a Mei at all, so probably it will remain a mystery. Anyway, here's a couple of more pics. BR, Veli
  21. I have still tried to figure this out... Due to the fact that the kanji seem not to fit any mei, and are not too skillfully chiselled, I have started to think it is not a mei at all but something else... My best guess so far is X田XXX厄浪 but does this make any kind of sense? Misfortune, waves? If there was a 人 in the end it would be interesting, but I see nothing... The second to last kanji does look a lot like 厄, however, but that would be quite an unusual inscription, wouldn't it? Any more good or bad ideas, anybody Veli
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