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@Bruce Pennington and rest of boyz. I had found recently emura with crudely done fittings. Your opinion please. Tsuba is suspicious.

@IJASWORDS any of yours have similar markings?

It could have been worse [back of the sheep]

Here you go similar condition 900$. Dunno how to compare blades. Yours have same stamp etc. https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/208615160_wwii-ijn-Japanese-naval-officer-s-samurai-sword-kai-gunto-swansea-ma

Is there a stamp above tachi mei?

Worthy adding is: -its steinless steel blade, -saya lacquered wood not rayskin wrapped. -tsuba consists of one element [dunno if its brass/copper] For comparison full toyokawa 265 [fuchi and tang marked too] https://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/52795-affordable-kai-gunto/#comment-554951 @Bruce Pennington anchor in circle is toyokawa right? Tenzoshan used anchor without circle.

You can say same about shinsaku period. Ban was lifted in 1953? Thanks to Honma/Akihide/Sato.

Shinto/shinshinto In the late 18th century, swordsmith Suishinshi Masahide criticized that the present katana blades only emphasized decoration and had a problem with their toughness. He insisted that the bold and strong kotō blade from the Kamakura period to the Nanboku-chō period was the ideal Japanese sword, and started a movement to restore the production method and apply it to katana. Katana made after this is classified as a shinshintō (新々刀), "new revival swords" or literally "new-new swords" So shinshinto period smiths started making swords in koto style. It's never clear period boundary but a longer process. But new things appear like shikomizue or "samurai spirit reborn" gendaito for army straight said had to resemble koto.

It's sword era. Ban on swords [1876] not a start of meiji era [1868] is a timestamp. https://www.japaneseswordindex.com/period.htm So you don't look on sugata but date. If someone currently tries to do blade resembling kamakura in shape it's still shinsakuto. Many smiths actually schifted from sword making into making tools. It was tragedy for art/industry. "Swords forged after the Haitōrei Edict are classified as gendaitō. The craft of making swords was kept alive through the efforts of some individuals, notably Miyamoto kanenori (宮本包則, 1830–1926) and Gassan Sadakazu (月山貞一, 1836–1918), who were appointed Imperial Household Artist." Look into Akihide Kurihara and his father history. Also first blast furnace was built in 1857 by Takato Oshima. You don't divide blades itself looking on characteristics in this actual period becouse smiths were making blades the old fashioned way. Unlike muromachi/edo with strict measurements included in emperor's decree.

Please add more photos

https://www.jssus.org/nkp/fake_japanese_swords.html

https://www.jssus.org/nkp/fake_japanese_swords.html

2.5k$? Depends on blade.

True wrong bohi

Imo chinese wallhanger.

There is a lot of empty koshirae around ready to be reused. Notice tsukamaki [wrapping] should be alternate, diamond shaped. Tsuka ito looks suspicious. [Color, texture and thickness] Also your blade is made of damascus steel? Nakago is banana shaped to fit tsuka? Give us habaki and sarute [probably added separately] close up please. I will attach wakase [gilded?] T98 with modern blade. Just look at first photo on habaki and seppa from edge side, you see clearly how bigger original habaki was. https://ebay.us/m/P4lM5q Ofcourse omura too http://ohmura-study.net/903.html

Check Rai hada, maybe your sword have some harder steel patches along entire blade.

With blade that old with such a dark, dense jigane it's nothing. Rai?

In his other auctions [however shorter blades] certificate is plain visible at main picture.

This ware runs through entire bohi? Marked spot looks like fukure to me especially with left part already delaminated. How old is this blade?

Dunno how to explain that buying sword in such a shape wasn't with profit in mind.

More like a private matter

@Volker62I want your opinion about blade but you blocked dms

Looked like it needed around 5k$ more of investment so it wasn't "worthy" from beginning. At least in monetary terms. Only tokuho would be somewhat worthy of fuss.

Yes when I saw it I knew It's worthy and would require more money. It's variation of example "K/M" from his years as head of the prison [supposedly 1940-1943] https://japaneseswordindex.com/emura.htm Even important quote: "Kiyoshi Morita noted that Emura exhibited his swords at the 1st Gunto exhibition in 1943; these were signed as being from Doshu in Kochi prefecture (mei "F"), not from Bishu in Okayama (mei "H,K,M"). This would lead one to speculate that before 1940 Emura was in Takamatsu city in Kagawa prefecture in Shikoku. Around 1940 he was located in Okayama prefecture (Bishu-mei ("H,K,M")) as the head of the Okayama prison, then around 1943 he returned to Kochi prefecture (Doshu-mei "F"). Probably various mei were used as he was the head of Okayama prison and traveled considerably" It have crest and nice fittings with open tsuba example.