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congratulations on getting this one, I have seen it too and was thinking if I should buy it. It looks amazing.

I love the style of the matching fittings (kojiri, kurikata, fuchi kashira, koiguchi.....), can anyone come up with name of the style of it? like hammered/dotted fittings or something like that. To me it is very aesthically pleasing, very nice. Congratulations on nice koshirae. Also the mokume esque saya is also really nicely done.

Well after some nice philosofical debates back to the photos, I have though of one more thing that might be interesting if it was photographed. I have a thing for before and after restoration photos, Having a really nice photos of before and after quality polish could be really interesting... at least to me. You know see the differences and between the healthy and out of polish before and after pictures. This is probably very niche but could be interesting.

I would love to see more quality pictures, or even oshigata of the tanba no kami yoshimichi blades with its "sudareba" hamon i believe it is called? I dont know why but I fell in love with those, I have a few pictures of them downloaded to admire. Would love to get a blade for my self one day but high quality photos would be also amazing.

Thanks for the clarification, I thought so, just asked to be sure.

Well, this was very rich discussion with great points made here. To clarify I was not necessarily looking for authentication of the signatures, even if I phrased it that way. I was looking some facts about the presented koshirae and its parts. Something that can be written down about the piece and recorded. Maybye one thing to ask, since the signsturess differ slightly, do they say the same name in the end ? Like does it mean the same name or are there different translations with the different kanji used there? Just checking if all say the same name or not. I have enjoyed looking at this koshirae, it is really well made, also taking pictures and looking at them later they dont do the craftsmanship justice it deserves. In person it is conplety different, it feels, more. I guess, cant think of anything else to say about it 😆 Love the wave theme and this great. Really cool that the collection has this good quality piece, compared to the rest, there are 4 nihonto in total + 1 in Austrian fittings and 2 NCR guntos. Not much but it is not the focus/goal of the institution to get more Japanese swords. We are happy with what we got. Thank you everyone for all the input here. Much appreciated

Oh yeah, dont let me start about fakes of... well... everything. Good thing to be able to examine original stuff to compare possible fakes to. It does not bother me personally 😆 I am simply gathering data on an interesting subject, semi research. Unfortunately for this piece, shinsa is nigh impossible to happen ever.

Amazing hear multiple sides. My question would be, when was the "hay day" so to speak for the fake signatures? Did they říše after Edo period ended? Before 2nd World war? After? When would the possibility of the fake signature be highest? Since this blade was in Czech Republic then Austria Hungary probably for more than 170 years or at least 120... Given his active period, when the blade was forged and then the move to bohemia with some royalty that visited the lamd of the rising sun. Educated guess for it would be around the time the Successor to the throne Franz Ferdinand d'este visited Japan in 1893 and someone from his entourage, probably same case as with the navy officer who had a Japanese blade fitted to his golden saber fittings I posted some time ago. There is also quite a lot of different Japanese swords in czech castles that belonged to the nobility.

Kojiri

I might have to take a better picture with this detail but on the fuchi the carving behind the waves is extremely deep like at least 4 mm deep. That is super cool, but probably not visibile in this picture.

Sure, I will add some I have taken pictures of