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Thank you Rohan, appreciate it!

Hi all, we all know of the Rai school and their members. Rai Kunitoshi, Kunimitsu, Kuniyuki, and Ryokai. I consider myself to be somewhat of a new student in this hobby after maybe a year, or at least closing in on a year in the hobby. We hear a lot from the Rai school mostly focused around the following members. Yet I never have heard much about Rai Kunitsugu, despite him being one of Masamune's Jittetsu. Is there a reason for this? have I simply not read enough? looked around enough? is his work just not as superb as compared to the others in Rai? is he forgettable? any answer would be appreciated. Helping out what could maybe be a case of newbie nativity. Hoping this isn't too silly of a question to be asked, still working up my confidence to post as much in this forum Thank you all!

Very cool and exciting whenever Masamune comes up publicly, will be staring at this piece for awhile. Was about to start a w hole other threat about it!

Yes I did, the catalogs were there and in some corner within the display room. Sothebys and Christies go out of their way to label all other forms of art, they did it with every other item displayed, just didn't bother with Nihonto as much. A few weeks back I was at Christies for their 21st evening sale, and they had no problem displaying little bits of paper with estimates ranging from 40,000,000 USD - 60,000,000 for a Monet. Of course paintings and swords are one and the other. Just left a bad taste in my mouth when everything else setup at Sothebys at that time had far more attention tended too it than the swords being tucked away in some corner unceremoniously, but what can we do.

This is a wonderful thread, very, very informative. I visited the Sothebys pre sale as it was in New York, they had only one blade on display though I was unsure of which it was. The rest of the blades were locked up in glass containers within their shirasaya, and koshirae. If any of you want photos I can try to send them. Though I have to warn my photo of the one blade, is not the best. All of the swords had no markers, no information about them. They put no real effort in the display I feel, meanwhile other artworks had through estimates, the painter, and the time period. All the swords had none, even the sword on display didn't have the smiths name. Very underwhelming

seriously disappointing, can't win em all

Not on view is tragic, one of my favorite smiths though!

pretty! enjoy it

Woah this is cool! first 'Ive ever seen of this

Thank you Micheal, most appreciated!

thanks man, most appreciated!

ah many such instances, glad to know I wasn’t just missing something in plain sight.

Also, sorry for the influx of questions was wondering if you happened to know the price of the Yasutsuna, And what levels of papers it had. one of my favorites so any mention always does drive home interests. thanks!

Thanks, I checked the Sokendo site but couldn’t find a listing. Am I right to assume they don’t list their items on their website? maybe i’m missing it? if there is a link to it could you please provide it? thank you!

would love to have more details, on who was dealing with the signed Yasutsuna.

thanks everyone! there really is too much to learn! don’t think i’m doing too bad with less than a year though.

https://katanahanbai.com/en/katana/gassan-sadayoshi/ Saw this while browsing, anybody see the point of this? I get it is the owner of the blades name? but why not inscribe it on the Nakago? Interesting blade shaped like a machete as listed in the description. Unfortunately I quite have a liking for the additional oddities.

love this thread, extremely informative. Good to know theres more to it than Sothebys and Christies. No arguments! loving this so far.

these guys always have some interesting stock, and yeah they love to recycle I genuinely though they had two Sadatoshi blades, whoops!

nvm no longer a fan of his

Absolutely love this blade, huge fan of Yukimitsu. Quite the stellar looking blade.

holy yeah, that’s tired. excuse my half distracted viewing of the blade without zooming in once, lectures and nihonto don’t connect well..

Nowhere near as experienced enough to give a full and thorough breakthrough on the blade, but from first glance it looks quite nice. Though that Is without zooming it, and looking for whatever may lay beneath the common eye, one that I have yet to break free from. Look forward to hearing others, I too love the over extended tanto look!

my records broken and now i’m no longer able to show my face here.. retiring from nihonto for good, was a fun year.

holy hell what a steal!!!