Gerry

I was just at the 2nd phase of the Jubi exhibition at the NBTHK museum this week, and it was quite a treat to see so many Kamakura era ubu zaimei tachi. The standout to me was the 96.3cm signed Tomonari tachi below: There was also a Norishige tanto with a gorgeous jigane, but it was was odd that the mekugi ana were both punched straight through the characters of the mei: There was also a Tsunahiro hirazukuri wakizashi with a flamboyant hamon: And also a Masamune, which I honestly didn't find to be that outstanding: There were lots of koto blades with prominent utsuri, such as this Muneyoshi: And a few blades had the hamon on the kissaki running very close to the edge: One very interesting sword to me was a Kaneyoshi that was signed and dated both on the same side of the nakago:

I'm always surprised by how popular koa isshin mantetsu swords are in Japan. Considering that they aren't even traditionally made, and were mass produced, It's incredulous as to why anyone would pay 4.2M yen for this one listed below in tachi mounts. You can easily get a pretty good Juyo level sword for that price. https://www.jauce.com/auction/d1226389024

I think one of the senior forum members here recently purchased a sword from them that went on to paper for TH.

Just goes to show that not all swords owned by Daimyo were good swords.

Just thought it'd be interesting to share... This listing just came up for a "Sa" blade, and it has a daimyo torokusho registration number of 24, which is the lowest I've seen yet. https://www.jauce.com/auction/d1227331676

This Yahoo Japan listing purportedly shows General Yamashita's shingunto, with a Yasunori blade. I'm not sure how authentic this listing is, since the blade doesn't look like a Yasukunito to me. https://www.jauce.com/auction/m1223043675

My bad...I meant the sword was recent-ish NTHK papers.

https://www.aoijapan.com/tachi：mumeiunsigned-kashu-ietsugu-around-the-oei-era-nbthk-hozon-token/ Aoi has a tachi listed as a Kashu Oei era blade per NBTHK. However, am I the only one to find that this patch on the ura side of the nakago, showing what looks to be modern yasurime, a little odd? The rest of the blade does look koto to me. Granted, osuriage nakago can have different yasurime, but this one looks really recent, in addition to the weird looking black rust around it. But, hey, NBTHK awarded it Hozon.

This interesting Gassan Sadakazu katana came up on Yahoo Japan, with recent NBTHK origami. It's a pity that Jauce won't ship to the US at the moment, and the sword went for a song. https://www.jauce.com/auction/w1222339892?allow=1 https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/w1222339892?

This is a pretty odd listing for a heisei period shinsakuto that's mounted in what seems to be genuine period WW2 Type 98 shin gunto mounts. https://www.jauce.com/auction/t1219488627

Just came across this rather ornate hybrid of a gunto koshirae. It looks to be a kyu gunto-parade sabre mix. Has anyone seen something like this before? It has a supposed Gassan Sadakazu blade.

Does anyone here find it odd that, for the high quality of koshirae shown in this video, that the slots in the saya for the kogai and kozuka aren't cut properly near the koiguchi? You can see that the kogai and kozuka sit at an angle in the saya.

I received a sword from Tsuruginoya via UPS in late Aug 2025, and it came through without issue. All I had to do was to pay for the tariff through UPS.

Hi, can you please share the thickness of the sakikasane?

I don't see any photos of a torokusho in this listing?