Marcin

I’m adding T98 here becouse saya is covered in shark skin too. If there is dedicated thread for shin gunto with skin drop a link. Hishi mon and overall stylish. https://ebay.us/m/ZsFJA5

Send an email to yourself?

@Bruce Pennington could You share Your Nagamitsu data? simple total number versus amount with nagasa below 63,5? (25in.)

I don’t dispute mei, just this „bringback paper” If there is visible hamon at kissaki that don’t run from tip please add photo

Lewis, no boshi? Shortened by entire kissaki? No yokote - 61 cm nagasa, doable.

In this „bringback paper” - is there any description pointing this exact sword? Copy so it can be attached to any gunto multiple times… If there isn't better to throw this away. Mei looks like another fine example „G or H” https://japaneseswordindex.com/naga.htm -shoshin! http://www.nihonto.us/NAGAMITSU TACHI JL.htm

Yes, I wrote „combined with” but it’s meaningless. Blade speaks for itself.

Ok after this sword sold I can tell that it was great buy. Apparently humble suguha with this jigane. 885g. Combined with flamboyant koshirae would do massive hit on anyone. Perfect mix.

More on the contrary. Clean evenly build jigane can be found not only in highest ranked blades. I don’t want to stray You from the path more likely to show You other maybe equally good or better route. Clean and fat, not longest around but shogunate forced max length of swords. It’s hard for me to even point any particular swordsmith. It will always find both sides of community. Someone pointed a need to use 3rd party with this kind of buy.

I'm just wonder what about not going after papers? Look on this beauty, it will get Juyo one day for sure. https://sword-auction.com/en/product/31610/as25637-katana-hizen-koku-ju-oumi-daijo-fujiwara-tadahiro-nbthk-tokubetsu-hozon-token/

Gunbai motif at koiguchi? It’s more appropriate for comanding Japanese at the end of war then auxiliary unit. Cut off from homeland.

Both mekugi ana are used for actusl mekugi? Habaki looks longer then usual.

I believe I didn’t ask similar question for more then a year :] Sometimes it can give impression that I spam with trash findings. I see this forum in near future as biggest database in a world. With this amount of examples, comments and proper tools maybe it would be possible to create new chatbot? Dunno how it is regulated in the rules. Who is an owner of comments made here? If there is a possibility content at forum should be „spoilered” yet not readible fully via general search engine like google or be used for comercial unfamiar chatbots for machine learning. Also there should be time limit for sale offers and „bump” amount depending on the account type - self-clearing for „normies”

What kind of machine can do yhis inscription?

Exactly. Only small amount of offers ending there. There is also issue of long lasting dead offers, no one takes care - but with books it's good occurrence.

If one of participants don’t want to - offer is removed. Check how small number of sales is there, no books or most tosogu.

Usually offer is removed. I guess offer was up in last 2 months. I didn’t saved it sadly.

You are going to scare him if He will have to read wall of letters 🤣

Kirill, please understand. He is from Germany. At museum You can’t hold one in hand, same with online sellers. Utrecht allows him to see irl some good blades. Fresh to hobby?, I don’t expect from him to spend 3k to fly to Japan just to try to speak with natives. I understand that You are seasoned nihonto scholar. He is beginner wanting to start collecting after 2 months in Japan. Utrecht is easy and safe for guy like him or even me. In states You have more of everything. Try to be more favorable. He want to buy Porsche, You advise him to take a trip to Sweden to look at Koenigsegg? Marcin

So cool Jussi, in 2021 valued at 5,5 million then 6.5 with koshirae. Maybe kissaki scares peps here.

Sale pending? extra 2k for polish?

Yes but still UPS can’t be competition to one another. I bet that low amount I payed is thanks to contract between sfl and fedex concluded before Iran war. Going with Fedex as individual would cost me normal rate. edit. I checked dimensions, weight and shiping route. Yeah it would cost me couple times more. Even more then sfl show me in quote. Packages above 50 inches costs a lot more due to this „chargeable weight” package dimensions makes it harder to deal with then actual fuel to ship this weight.

I have no idea but it was 1/4 of usual Fedex fee or half of proposed lowest UPS fee. Hard to even propose amount in this circumstances. Definitely there are fedex calculators online.

I didn’t went with UPS. I chose 450$ fedex via sfl, insured at 1000$ (max value in this shipping) It’s first at second sheet.

Go to Utrecht then. Best opportunity to see irl what world of nihonto have to offer, at least in Europe.