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New price: $1000 CAD

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Really fascinating. Hopefully, the respect for old traditions will continue for a long time to come. Looked like there were a few youthful faces among the apprentices, so the work has a chance to carry on.

Price drop: $6000 CAD + shipping and insurance, or best reasonable offer

Howdy. I live in Canada and have a Katana I would like to send to Japan for Shinsa. However, I'm not quite sure how to go about doing that. Can someone please let me know who I can contact to get the process underway? Thanks!

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Forged in 2008 by Sukemitsu (Anthony DiCristofano). Beautifully forged, demonstrating the amount of skill and control required to create such a hamon on a small kogatana blade. Blade length: 5.25" (13.34. cm) Overall length: 8.06" (20.48 cm) Asking $1200 CAD or best reasonable offer. Prefer EFT, but will accept PayPal + fee. Free Shipping in Canada, all other countries please inquire.

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Wakizashi – 45.8 cm NBTHK Tokubetsu Kicho paper Era: Nanbokuchō to Muromachi period - 1350-1450 Style: Shinogi Tsukuri Nagamaki Condition: Very Fine Nakago: O-Suriage – Kiri Yasurmei Jitetsu: Itame hada - well grained with attached Ji-Nie. Bo-Utsuri appears. Hamon: Niedeki Gunome/midare with deep Nioi Guchi through to the Boshi Koshirae: All matching lobster style with silver and gold highlights. Signed Tsuba (Naoyuki 直随). Remarks: The sword is the work of the Bizen Yoshii School. This unusual blade is in the Nagamaki style with an oversized Kissaki. The jitetsu is in Itame hada - well grained with attached Ji-Nie, Bo-Utsuri appears. The hada is prominent. The hamon is Niedeki Gunome/midare with deep Nioi Guchi through to the Boshi as illustrated. The blade is in good polish and is very healthy with a NBTHK Tokubetsu Kicho paper indicative of its quality. The matching original Koshirae in the lobster design really sets up this marvellous sword. The signed Bronze Tsuba by Naoyuki is engraved with a scene of an old Chinese story of a man playing with the wind blowing up a storm. The Kashira and Kurikata is a bronze engraving of the God Daruma Bodhidharima. It has touches of gold and silver. The menuki and Kogatana in a copper and bronze alloy has an engraved Lobster motif with touches of gold color. All together a stunning and unique work of art, Did the best I could with my first attempt at some macro-photography of the blade, hope the photos are OK. Asking $6500 CAD + shipping and insurance, or best reasonable offer.

SOLD 1. Bows, Arrows & Quivers of Ancient Japan by W.M.Hawley

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Here's where I got a very nice wooden single sword display case. They also have a double display case. All for a very reasonable price - they are on sale now for $139 or less. http://www.sfdisplay.com/sworddisplaycases.aspx A couple of photos from the site:

2. The Connoisseur's Book of Japanese Swords by Kokan Nagayama SOLD

Well Folks, This certainly has been a learning experience for me. Again I apologize for being lazy and not checking things more carefully. I was just going by the information supplied by the person I bought the sword from. And, yes, it's my fault for missing that key "Not Verified" comment, and for not getting the sword papered. At this stage, I have no idea of what the possible value of this Katana might be. All I do know is what I paid for it, and that the appraisal I have is probably not even worth the paper it's written on. That being said, I am going to ask Brian to remove this listing until I can get someone, with much more knowledge than I, to take a look and arrive at a fair value. Thank you all for your comments and insights. I really appreciate them. Good Days,

Folks, Got some photos taken today, with more to come. Sorry it's taking so long, but it took a LOT of attempts, constantly going back & forth from camera to computer to check the shots. It's a very different kind of photography from what I'm used to, so it's become a learning process for me. (The photos posted earlier are the ones the I got from Fred Fimio, who sold me the sword.) Here's what I took today: Hopefully I will have some close-ups tomorrow or the next day. As a further note, I am letting you know that I also discovered when I got it out to photograph, much to my horror, that there are 3 areas on the saya where splits have developed. They weren't there the last time I checked it, but that was quite a while ago. The wood of the saya is quite thin, and I have been storing it in a display case, in which it has remained for the past seven years or so.

4. Nihonto no Horimono (Engravings on Japanese Swords) by Sato Yoshiki and Nakamiya Yoshiro SOLD pending funds

Thank you Bryce & Bugyotsuji for your contributions. They are greatly appreciated! I hope to take some better photos this weekend and post them. Stay tuned...

Thanks. Ken. You are totally right on that. I just wish I had had the funds available to send it (Ohhh, how I wish,,,,) As they say: "If wishes were horses, beggars would ride"

Jacques D., on 25 Jun 2020 - 2:46 PM, said: Jacques, Please accept my most humble apologies. I have been made aware of a few things in the past few hours that have considerably changed my opinion. Among them, I came across this document buried in some files, which I totally forgot I had, in which you can see at the bottom in the Nakago description after "Signed two character signature Chika Tsugu", that Fred has hand written in: "NOT VERIFIED". Do you happen to know who the swordsmith is that forged this?

My information came from Mr. Fimio, whose judgement I tend to trust, due to his extensive knowledge and experience.

For me, I just couldn't afford it. I can't speak for the previous owners.

It is not papered. I purchased it from Fred.