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Is this modern repro or showa? Single mekugi ana in this mountings. Koshirae is really bad. Tsukamaki made by unskilled hand. Fresh rust. Imo this piece would be worth more as bare blade. It have visible division of yakiba/ji shinogi-ji?

If You divide/name swords made during historical Japanese Showa era [1926-1989] those would be swords made during 2 different sword era gendai and shinsaku. Think about this my way: gendai-to [現代刀] 1877-1945 刀 of gendai and shinsaku-to [新作刀] 1946- until now 刀 of shinsaku era What is a meaning of 刀? We can’t mixing historical and sword era together. These are separate divisions. You heard term showa-to? Collectors meaning - mass produced historical - all blades made during reign of emperor showa. Same with gendai-to. Two meanings literal and one used by collectors. Maybe proposed meaning of collector’s term „showato” is to wide and cover entire showa era but producing this type of item stopped entirely way before era ended. Using word showato to describe term: „mass produced non-traditional” in collectors meaning is confusing for many. If collectors agree to use term like mass-to/sharpi-to or something different it would be better

Of course it is for display. I’m not going to push anything inside. Metal rims visible on pics were added as some kind of repair, reinforcement. There is also long time before this blade will be polished and evaluated.

110245 kokura. https://ebay.us/m/4L4MD9

Tassel have some wrapper. What exactly You mean by acquired through family? If this was inherited someone probably bought it after ww2. So it have „factory new” tassel with renovated koshirae? Is there any hot stamp (kokuin)? example from 1943 https://www.aoijapan.net/katana-echigo-kuni-mitsuoki/#google_vignette

Oh and yeah all traditional swords are called nihonto. So we have nihonto made in koto/shinto/shinshinto/gendai/shinsaku -ERA. Scholars made division. So new/newer/newest in era context on relation to nihonto and nihonto only. Other concepts for example posted at links: gunto or civil blades; gendaito or showato it’s just different division based on common practice. Especially showato meaning mass produced non-traditional etc.

I would go for meaning gendai/kindai meaning entire „new era” while shinsakuto - newest made swords just like this division: https://www.japaneseswordindex.com/period.htm Next generations will decide if actual division will stick both in years and nomenclature. And yeah we need to go with meaning that „sword” means blade made traditional from the beginning. So non traditionally made dsn’t have right to be called „sword” from the start. Machine or non-fully traditionally made blades appeared in big amount after all during late 19th century. To support this just think about what can get torokusho :] We have some showato but it’s rare exception in a rule.

I would like to try it on nco. Doing this at nihonto is limited by space from ha to hamon line. Above hamon on good polish You can only cover as it’s to easy to scratch. I left 2 spots of black rust at mune. I don’t touch something that can suddenly reactivate. If You have to choose between removing rust and making cavity or leaving blade in current state better leave it as it is.

You are making solution of both and depending on what you want to cover it’s either more of oil or soda. 1. For example on edge I went for really wet cover to soak entire area. -It can’t be simply cover as soda need some „move” to be active at surface. Just like on a creek there is layer between water and air. -after making solution and covering You have to kinda „shake in spot” -I used small microfiber so I had full control on point. -of course You need to be sure where You doing it and that there is no rust particles.

Another sword of Kanemichi but with a lot of info including Slough’s page and nice picture of him and Kensei Nakayama Hakudo. https://www.samuraisword.com/gallery/swords/kojima-kanemichi-ww-ii-naval-officers-sword/

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/229095264_katana-san-fernando-ca Fuchi and kuchi-gane looks really good. I don't know what to think about this example. It dsn't try to fake anything, at least this time by simple desription - "katana". Nice tsukamaki. Did we have anything similar before?

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I stabilized spots with „active” fresh rust and removed some „old” black patches. You can see from the start of this thread what was going on with black dots, it suddenly started changing from 2 little dots to entire patch. It was done only in edge area and one finger print at mune. I have decades of experience with polishing granite so I know how easy is to make dimple. Baking soda with choji abura.

@PNSSHOGUN imagine who I wanted to ping edit. we have here page 71 from Tom Kishida's book:

Nice to have this separate thread. Late offer Yasutoku. Imperial gift. 750k wasn't enough so now it's 1,5M Sarute feels like bad repro. Tassel in normal variant? Habaki de lux with convex engraving koshirae. Possible T94 with pinned kabuto-gane, centered chuso , separate sarute barrel. Haikan was remounted. I would like get mei translation.

This example isn't just with bare stamp. But I need expert in this area.

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/229587712_antique-18th-c-massive-extremely-rare-Japanese-rifle-cannon-signed-carrollton-tx Stamp at cannon. Offer states 18th century but maybe @Bugyotsujiwould verify. I would go for younger production more like end of 19c.

I would like to get Your opinion on this Zutsu. https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/229587708_rare-and-fine-Japanese-edo-period-zutsu-a-samurai-katana-sword-storage-case-in-fine-lacquer-finish-carrollton-tx This looks like having lacquer inside so there shouldn't be issues with wood moisture? Of course visible crack will be dealt with. I bought it for gunto, I know - different nengou but I already had matching mon at T98. If anyone have some additional info about zutsu in general please share here.

i would go with isoprohyl alcohol 100% first. You can't do damage with correct aplication. @singh13 I know You posted more photos somewhere at facebook or sth like it. Please add picture for munemachi. It wasn't anything scary. Thanks for photo. I don't want to spam more but it's great long sword from great lineage. Sadayoshi was The One who reinvented ayasugi hada If I remember correctly. Koshirae with fresh NBTHK evaluation. I have it saved from the start :]

You are from states sadly, in Europe @Lexvdjagthave some marvelous pieces which is posting at forum. Jake's NJC Hokke with 2 koshirae was also worthy buying.

They went for second ana for tachi mount? Spring 1939 with extra marks at nakago. @Bruce Pennington in case You miss it

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So new example afterall. Great.

That’s why it is confusing CET vs CEST. Midnight CET is 01 am CEST so bidding could be like last minute snipe. But yeah lets go with first bid with 20$ and I will add another 5$ so We get same amount and no dissapointment on any side. Especially first bid was made at 14th. @Marius 35$ from me. Donation already made via paypal. @Brian paypal gives you Rands? I exchanged for 600 R and paypal took 35$ so I have 17,48 R left. Do You have something like revolut? great multi currency account. So simple cheap wire transfer.

1942? 143. Nice condition.