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Or any of the 3 unifiers lol. It's kinda funny that Oda Nobunagas collection, most of it anyway, went to Hideyoshi, then Tokugawa. I thought of the idea of a sword not being razor sharp as beneficial once bc I believed it wouldn't chip as easily. I think I noticed the production ones I was buying would be much tougher if they weren't razor sharp. But the whole ranking system kinda made me think maybe nihontos don't suffer from that flaw. But modern steel is better, but nihontos have a lot more care put into them. I also recently read someone's article on how he believes only the best swords would make it out and had to have either a daimyo or at least higher ranking samurai connection somewhere. I have read accounts of the early uchigatanas being throw away weapons after a battle if they were used, but I highly doubt any of my mumei nihonto were ever handled by daimyo, unless very low ranking. It's just interesting that things believed to be true 15 or so years ago are proving to be untrue or exaggerated.

Oh, so a commanders sword like William Wallace or Andrew Murray would have their swords preserved(I know Wallaces is, but hardly any knows who Andrew Murray is despite the battle of Stirling having them both as commanders). But a common infantry man or even famed Welsh archers likely would likey have traded in their weapons if they survived. A somewhat famous samurai called Makara Naotaka didn't treat his odachi how ppl would expect samurai to treat their swords as it's said he used the stones in a castle wall to unbend his sword after cutting down 3 ppl. The other story was of a samurai, maybe also him, sharpening his sword with a random rock he found. Sometimes I think the Edo era embellishes how samurai's in actual wars behaved.

It's this one, correct? It's my wife's favorite Nihonto, and the sword referred to as Ishida Masamune. A lot of my history books contradict each other so I'm not completely sure if he gave it to Yuki Hideyasu as a reward for safely escorting him back to Sawayama. Is Ono Yoshimitsu one of the revered Edo smiths? I'm only asking bc as I said there's so much contradicting info. Andrew.

I'm also taken in if I absolutely love the look of a blade. Especially if it's not insane expensive. I would be happy you got a nihonto you really liked the look of, and most seem to believe it's Muromachi era. I like the idea of owning a Nihonto that could've been on someone's hip at Komaki or Nagakute. Most importantly Sekigahara!!! I wouldn't care if there was one that was mass produced but guaranteed present at the massive battle in the narrow mountain pass. To me that would be amazing. Andrew.

Oh, interesting. I read that some were honestly mistaken so I thought bc of that people would make gimei. So even though Masamune and some of his famous 10 students stayed pure Soshu, while I know 1 for sure combined Soshu with, I think Yamato. I guess I just thought bc Masamune was Soshu den that would make them top tier. But over the last few years I've personally found most notable daimyo seek Ko Bizen. Just glad I'm already learning things. Although I've said before, I find that with this interest I will seek the answer to something only to than have 10 new questions hahaha. Cool Andrew.

Isn't a blade owned by Uesugi Kenshin the most famous, but not most expensive Nihonto? I'm pretty sure it's his Bizen Ichimonji that many have tried to emulate it's insane hamon. But if I remember correctly, it still can't be reproduced in a decent way. This book was somewhat old so someone may have succeeded by now, Andrew.

*know*

Oh, also love the hamon.

I love that type of hi style. I doubt I'll ever be able to afford a Nihonto with them. Best I can probably hope for is a production katana with additional soe hi(I think that's what the smaller hi is called), or maybe not. I've been lucky so far. I don't have anything exceptional but all 3 were what I wanted at the time, . Andrew.

Mines really close. 66cm but I could be mistaken. The one I believe older is 69.5 cm and was half the price of my other two. There was a pretty long time gap between first Nihonto 69.5 cm and the 66.3 cm one. Oh, and a 68 or 69cm one with a much more shallow curve than my first one. The first one's also really skinny and light and probably can't be polished again, Andrew

I think this might be his first Nihonto. I was so excited and asked so many questions and often repeated myself. My thought was Kanbun or Azuchi/Momoyama. I also thought it might have been uchi gatana as it looks like it could be wielded with one hand. Also, I think I'm on another forum with you, Andrew.

Sometimes just a name isn't enough to date a Nihonto since a lot of smiths had traditions such as inheriting the name of their schools founder, ect. Is it possible this is older? By just a bit, and was meant to be an uchi gatana bc the handle is crazily short

Oh, I said alleged experts bc on a forum I used to be part of this group were berating an older gentleman for misunderstanding them. One than said, why even ask experts if you ignore their advice. I agree with pretty much everything you've written, Edo is the most likey as they're going to be in the best quality. But my issue was myself and several others would be asked for more photos, to which we would comply, then never hear from them again. That gets frustrating. I'm really not as much of a novice as I seem. I'm novice plus maybe. I seriously do study nihonto a lot and buy the books that aren't just cool pictures. My interest in Samurai history is what spurred on this obsession/interest. I hope I wasn't coming off as rude. I was in a bad mood that night, probably the worst time to post haha. Cheers

I actually have a picture in a book but it's not very good quality. But the one I'm talking about has half of the saya covered in what looks like golden studs or spikes. I wanted to ask your opinion on something else. I only have 3 nihonto and all are o-suriage and mumei. Ray judged them to be late Muromachi which surprised me bc of the decent price, especially the one I got 14 years ago. Do you know if not being Ubu, and mumei could devalue that much where I could possibly get an unsigned bizen for 2 to 3000$? Bc my friends have this attitude like I'm delusional to even think they're nihonto. I'm determined to post the correct picture of Kuroda Yoshitakas sword now that I've blundered twice.

So I guess my explanation that my sensei thought I was a young no nothing and therefore thought I couldn't possibly have a nihonto didn't narrow it down enough. I'll say again, as he got to know me and saw I had an intense interest in samurai history nihonto's he seemed to slowly change his mind. I thought your comment pretty rude and sarcastic, which is why I'm being that way. If I've misunderstood you I sincerely apologize.