Daniel

Any news? Now would be a good time reading a book.

Collecting evil eyes from my wife and I must say I’m most successful in the field. Just had one of those glares and saw the opportunity to immediately add it to my collection or rather accumulation...

Bump Here’s another shot of mine...

Don’t think this is the same Akitaka(Nakabayashi Fukutaro Akitaka).

After reading Ray’s post I had to study mine again. While it’s true every dog has it’s day I find it hard to believe this smith had two exeptional days by ”accident”. Both Ray’s and my blades at least in my opinion shows very good workmanship. When viewing the blade I’m once again struck by the Hada and Jigane. The Hamon is also quite striking and very similar to Ray’s example so he must have had a good control of the process... As Ray I would be extremely interested of seeing additional examples. Regards Daniel

Very nice Ray! I have a blade by the very same smith. I’ve only seen two blades by Nakabayashi Akitaka, my own and now yours. Mine is also in the same style Type 3 koshirae but with a leather combat cover. Interesting is both yours and mine has a sarute which type 3’s usually don’t have... Regards Daniel

Try Kevin at ryujinswords.com. I bought a replica screw from him a couple of years ago which fitted perfectly... Regards Daniel

Hope for a realese anytime soon...

Mei: Akitaka Date: Showa ju hachi nen ichi gatsu kitsu jitsu (one lucky day in January 1943) Regards Daniel

Well, here’s mine...

Omar, regardless of the type of mineral oil used the answer is repetition. I would apply a light mineral oil daily for a couple of weeks after that once a week etcetera. As said repetition and supervision... Good luck Daniel

I agree, I’m very sure this is a fake. Even If real and this is not, a standard gunto in this condition isn’t much to hang in the Christmas tree...

George I had a Star stamped Kanetoshi(Noshu ju Kanetoshi) with the miniature Seki stamp which I presume is the same Kanetoshi. It could very well be a Seki thing indeed as I’ve seen Gendaito from Seki smiths in this type of mounts before... However what differs from the usual low quality Type 3 mounts with steel scabbards and poorly done Ito-Maki in most cases unlaquered is that the low quality mounts containing a Gendaito blade always had the double button relese. I have never encountered a Showato in the higher end Type 3 mounts or in the low quality WITH double button release. Regards Daniel

Always hard to make judgements based on pictures but I really do like the hada of the Akihisa. As said before there are many good works from the Aki smiths. Congrats to your swords and a very nice web site... Regards Daniel

Yes I had one some years ago but as Brian said...