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Lots of alternative ideas from members in this thread. https://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/49930-a-nihonto-display-case-at-home/page/2/

30%RH is plenty low. Don't be alarmed if you see it rise to the upper 30's; desiccant packets have a floor at which they can't absorb below, and its usually 35-40.

I imagine it's somewhere in the area of a first-born child I wish Eirakudo hadn't changed their photography setup, the hada is so washed out on many of the listings.

I don't know if it's the narrowness and tapering of the saki-haba, but something about the sugata just doesn't work for me. Which is a pity because otherwise I agree, a nice offering in that range.

I display the bare blade in basically a sealed display safe and don't have issues despite hot humidsummers. I've considered using a long clear sleeve of plastic and heat sealing it with a dessicant packet inside. That would maintain the same humidity basically indefinitely. Shirasayas look nice, but all wood will absorb moisture to some degree.

Congratulations. That is indeed an interesting attribution. Love that Sugata.

Tariffs outweigh the currency gap if you're in the US. I would be paying about 9% more than I did two years ago. But it's important to protect the ancient Japanese sword manufacturing base here at home so I persevere.

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You must be very pleased with that polish

Epic achievement.

Indeed it is That is a rather fetching price given the attribution, size, health and fresh polish. If I lived over there I would take a peek!

Lovely polish. That must have been an absolute beast before the suriage. Good luck with the sale!

Your considerations range from $6k USD to $200k? Are you sure you know what you're looking for?

I'm just a newb, but that polish seems solid as it is.

If you put in the time learning and spend 20% of your budget on a papered Nanbokucho blade that you maximized with your gained knowledge, I can all but guarantee you will feel a greater sense of satisfaction because you will feel like you earned it. Then you also have the possibility of a Juyo submission, which i can only imagine feels amazing.

Often in posts like this, someone will ask the question: "what do you like about it?" Someone asked me that when I was looking to buy my first blade, and I was posting random blades that fit the vague criteria I had come up with. I'm glad they did; when i really thought about it, it completely changed my perspective. Personally, for 40k USD I would want to know beyond a shadow of a doubt what I want, and why I want it.

Luminol is used to local/reveal potential blood stains, typically post clean up. OBTI is used to confirm presence of human blood. Both are field tests.

Yes. It's down to personal tolerance, but that's not a big deal. Was hard to tell the extent in the original pictures.

It has a pleasing sugata and as long as you know what you are getting and what the resell prospects are, you could certainly do a lot worse. Is that a large kitae-ware on the ura side up in the shinogi? It's not the end of the world, but as Klee points out, it is a mumei shinto blade to begin with.

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For reference, this one that shows up in Hoshi's database was listed for 1,000,000 originally and sold recently: https://eirakudo.shop/305191 It had been for sale quite a while. I nearly bought it half a dozen times, but the relative shortness kept making me hesitate. Lovely blade though.

I display the book as a part of my collection. Even people who don't care about swords are able to appreciate it for the level of quality.

Tametsugu can get awfully nice in and of itself. If the below one ever shows up in public for 3.5 I will be the owner

I tried to cheat, but it appears Jussi left his blade out of his own database

Aoi currently has this Hasebe wakizashi on consignment which aroused my curiosity: https://www.aoijapan.com/wakizashimumei-attributed-to-hasebe-kunishigenbthk-tokubetsu-hozon-token-consignment-sale/ A quality Hasebe is a long term goal of mine, so whenever up pops up I like to study it. This one was especially interesting as Kunishige himself was listed in the attribution. One of the things I like to do when looking into a blade is check @Jussi Ekholm's wonderful database to get an of how many others with same attribution and similarities are out there. In the case of Kunishige, I knew there were far more tanto and wakizashi than tachi/katana out there, but was curious how many would be attributed to him. Interestingly enough, there are no mumei wakizashi's in the database attributed directly to Kunishige, which would make this one fairly rare. My curiosity lead me to translate the attribution myself, however, and I'm pretty sure it's actually Hasebe Kuninobu. Still a great attribution, but less so. Also kind of inexcusable for Aoi unless they're interchangeable for purposes of attribution? (I believe that's the son of the first gen Kunishige). Anyway, for those of you well versed in Hasebe works, how do you think it compares or holds up?