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Someone has taken some sort of abrasive to the Mei as well which is unfortunate.

Perhaps 充 instead of mitsu?

Tomato tomato!

The first 2 characters are 妙一 or "Myoitsu" There was an Inshu smith Kanesaki that would also sign with Myoitsu but a quick search only turned up results that included more full mei (Inshu ju Fujiwara Kaneaski) Inshu Kanesaki (Some of the kanji look a bit different but this isn't my specialty)

It does not. There is a short 2 page afterward but no extensive section like the Yamato book had.

Wishing you all a successful delivery and happy study of the Yamashiro tradition!

The 7.7M Sadatoshi has been listed for some time. Eirakudo will re-list old listings after a while if they haven't sold. Their Sukekane Ko-Bizen tachi as well as a few others have been "recycled" recently and at the same prices as before.

I think we all got the same message this morning!

Good looking sword. If you right-click the image and "open in new tab" it pulls up a much more detailed image. Sometimes Eirakudo's site loads blurry images for me at first.

It does look like the book here only covers the Osafune lineage looking at the table of contents in Aoi's picture it goes from Mitsutada through Motoshige

I'm not sure the order in which Markus is translating these so we'll have to wait and see. Or maybe he can chime in on what he's working on next as I imagine he'll be the translator for all 5/6 (I think there are 2 Bizen-den) books.

I contacted Me No Me regarding Tanobe's newest work on the Yamashiro tradition translated by Markus Sesko as part of Tanobe’s gokaden series and they sent me a live product page for international orders. I know the Yamato den book was popular and many people here were trying to get a copy of one without paying inflated prices. I just placed my order this morning after they provided me a link so we will see how de-minimus and other tariff laws apply as its shipped internationally. https://ringringdo.com/products/9784907211356

As was suggested earlier it reads 因幡國住藤原兼先 - Inaba no Kuni ju Fujiwara Kanesaki The link to another thread posted above your post has a lot more context on this smith and their working period including many genealogy charts and the entire lineage of smiths who signed this way.

The habaki is really cool!

Dont do anything to clean the tang or blade! That will ruin any value in the blade. the pictures you supplied of the tang are perfect.