Sukaira

don't do it

Yesss thank you

Somehow I missed this - USA

Thanks for the clarification! It is slightly confusing since the Nihonart page doesn't have any strong indication of "for sale" like the Swords of Japan does, so I was thinking it might just be showcasing various things.

I am not sure if that Masamune tanto is actually for sale from @Ray Singer though is it? I always thought this: https://swordsofjapan.com/product-category/swords/?orderby=date was his list of swords. Maybe he can clarify but some of the swords listed on the Nihonart.com page are from other people, like this Rai: https://nihonart.com/portfolio/juyo-rai-kunimitsu-katana/ is (or was) actually Bob Benson's: http://www.togishi.com/store/p506/Rai_Kunimitsu_Juyo_Token.html

Will post more soon

Thank you sir. Also, how do you get this kind of photo? It seems good for a bit more of a surgical type of analysis of the steel.

can post more if anyone is interested

Putting these up (hopefully they don't degrade too badly) for anyone that wants to take an up close study of a Rai Kunimitsu that cannot view one in person. Cheers.

Thank you @Nobody !

Cross posting this from the other General section

I have 4, well now 3 sayagaki in flight. Here is the first if anyone wants to take a crack at it. I tried to break this up into a few zoomed in photos since I think at full scale it would blur out a bit too much. Thanks in advance.