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I think it should still be looked at, there are a multitude of members in San Fransisco and Orlando that can give a good value assessment on it. It might be worth the hassle to send it in for shinsa, and if not then you’d still have a good secondary opinion. Judging blades like these based on images is exceedingly hard.

Could very well be koto, maybe even early koto. Kuni could refer to a multitude of smiths. I think this should be shown to someone in person for evaluation.

Hello Sukaira, Shipping it the US is no longer possible with EMS because of the recent tariff implementation. This will likely eventually be solved. In the Netherlands there was an issue as well because US customs forced our national post agency to have the sender pay the tariff. I don’t really know if Japan post has the same issue, but it could very well be. Picking up swords in person is basically the easiest.

This is one of my latest images in my ongoing battle to achieve Japanese dealer-like images. Photographing on plexiglass with a dark background. Using large LED lights to light the blade from both angles with a camera above. In this case, I removed the background in post in Photoshop and then composed the two images of the tanto together. I was taking some inspiration from Darcy's guide (can be found in the Links section, although the link does not seem to work anymore). I will add the guide to this post. Photographing_Nihonto.pdf

Price now 1000 EURO

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Unfortunately clear examples of inauthentic Nihonto. If you want to get into the hobby then I would recommend going to a sword meetup. In hands experience is vital to learn in this hobby.

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Reminds me a little of this Ko-Uda katana: https://www.toukenkomachi.com/index_ja_tachi&katanaA100823.html

Can we get an image of the full Nakago?

Lowering the price to 2250 euro

Lowering price to 2600 EUR