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The nagasa (cutting edge) is 53.5cm making it a wakizashi. It's not worth $1600 you would be wasting your money. It has a few bad flaws in the ji and it's gimei.

It's a wakizashi and the mounts look like a modern put together job. The tsuka has definitely been re-wrapped recently. It looks like a gimei as well. You could do much better for a first sword. Update: Just saw the wak on ebay, it's already about $600 overpriced in my opinion. I've had a look at ebay and I reckon this wak is probably the most interesting at the moment: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=012&item=220015006668

http://www.japanesetex-style.co.uk/prod ... &code=O246 This wall hanging has your mon

Does anyone have any ideas what school this katana might be from? It's an o-suriage katana, judging from the shape it would have been at least 30" nagasa originally. It's Mino and appears to be late muromachi with quite a high shinogi. It's a well forged sword and has no flaws no open grain nothing. The hada is mokume with masame in the shinogi-ji. The hamon is in nioi with a thick nioiguchi. The hamon is very distinctive but I haven't been able to nail it in any of my books. I had thought it might be Kanemoto school? Anyone have any thoughts? Thanks, Peter

I'm sure there was a phoenix tsuba at seikeido a few months back, looks like it might have sold. Keep checking his page, never been disappointed with any tsuba I've had off him. http://www.nona.dti.ne.jp/~sword/tsuba.htm

Excellent work on the new forum! How about an Armour forum or maybe even a miscellaneous forum where we could discuss netsuke, woodblocks etc. Also can we get the UK sword ban forum back?