Host of swords and blades - all Nakamura

[drbvac]

This guy is in the states and amazingly enough has several blades by Nakmura and someone who can punch out Tsuba

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/Japanese-Sword_W0QQ ... 911.c0.m14

[FBJ]

The horimono on that sword is amazing.

 

Mike H.

[drbvac]

Mike: I hope as I was that you were/are joking. The sword sold for 57.00 which is probably 55 more than its worth!

[raaay]

mike

 

sorry can't be diplomatic about this ONE. what a load of Chinese CRAP.

 

as previous comments you were surely joking i hope

 

ray

[FBJ]

Fake or not, still like the idea of horimono on the blade as its shown in the pictures -- no testament to any sort of antique worth from me because I admittedly don't know enough.

 

Mike H.

[Wari-kogai]

I`m pretty sure, that this is one of those swords imitating

Tom Cruise`s sword from the movie "The Last Samurai".

[Kajihei]

(( Tom Cruise`s sword from the movie "The Last Samurai" ))

 

Yes, indeed, and the horimono on this blade repeats the same mistake Hollywood made. I don't know what that Chinese phrase inscribed says (despite what the movie script says), but the characters are like "fonts" instead of brush strokes, so they look like computer-generated. And note the period at the end of the phrase. There are no puctuation marks, ever, on chassical Chinese, or Japanese for that matter. On printed texts, readers added their own punctuation marks to facilitate reading, and in modern printed versions, punctuation marks may be added to help the reader. But you never see a period at the end of a stand-alone kanji-phrase. So this obviously is a creation of an uninformed "western" mind, and whoever in China that copied it without critically evaluating their own classical language deserves fifty lashes with wet noodles.

 

Kaji