Council

[raaay]

here we go again 

[Matsunoki]

It gets better and better. I haven’t smiled so much for this long in a while. 

PLEASE do tell us what the NBTHK say….we are holding our breath!

[Pritajeni1]

4 minutes ago, Matsunoki said:

Све је боље и боље. Нисам се оволико смешио већ неко време. 

МОЛИМ ВАС, реците нам шта каже NBTHK ... задржавамо дах!

"Well, you see, at least you had a laugh, and I calmed down, damn."

 

[Danny D]

33 minutes ago, Bugyotsuji said:

The certificate is Chinese.

And OP is very much a troll. 

 

 

[Lewis B]

This is internet gold....golden eel. 

[Curran]

   Oh,  my face hurts from prolonged smiling.

This wasn't an April Fools Day joke, was it?

 

We've had a few, like the Cajun and his National Treasure Beaver Cleaver of a tachi.

[Toryu2020]

Whats the felxibility measurement? Can it be worn as a belt?

[Brian]

I suggest you research Heian swords. You will see there is not a single remote resemblance to this thing. You don't even have to ask us, just look at how they were made, what they looked like. What the fittings looked like...consistently. 
We don't need to tell you any of this. You can see it for yourself. You won't find a single sword in the evolution of Nihonto even close to this. Not one thing. 
You have some of the world's experts here on the forum. Which you seem to be ignoring. You have people here involved in the society you are talking about. You have authors here, museum curators, very high end collections. People who visit Japan multiple times a year to study Japanese swords. Not a single one will give even one tiny vouch for this. Or even contact you privately to find out anything.
The NBTHK won't respond. This will be a joke to them. 

[Kantaro]

Slimy "papered" swords are not easy to find...

[ChrisW]

Thanks. I needed a good laugh today! I didn't realize April First came twice this year.

[Stephen]

I propose this be moved to the laugh of the day

[Matsunoki]

I vote for this as the most entertaining thread for quite a while, even better than the one about  cast ts…..🙂

[Shugyosha]

If brevity is the soul of wit then it certainly knocks the cast tsuba thread into a cocked hat. 

[Lewis B]

I wonder if the NBTHK have responded yet.

[R_P]

Posts like this make life fun. @Brian remember the 100 million dollar sword from Ukraine a while back? That sword the 100M was sitting in my dorm room in university for a few weeks and belonged to a fellow student and his father (Andrei Trepshin). For years they shot from museum to museum with claims of authentic provenance and even pushed me to buy the relic. Finally when the late Greg Irvine told them definitively that it was retempered and had lost any resemblance to a Nihonto did the hawking move past UK shores. Only to seen it at some ridiculous auction for 100M. As far as I know it's still with the Trepshins. 

 

This is the new 100M PoS apparently 

 

[Pritajeni1]

21 hours ago, Lewis B said:

Питам се да ли је НБТХК већ одговорио.

Nije😏

[Rivkin]

What can I say, I also suffer from the temptation to discovery once in a lifetime treasure and it can be hard to accept I miss more often than land a score.

[Stephen]

Mr RR

may I call you R?

You come to the premiere sword study group asking about a katana which it cannot be because it's too short then you were told that it is a fake not even a good copy and you get upset saying how do you know, we have spent many years learning time and money to tell the difference. 

I hope your heart is not broken when you find out it is false sword.

 

On this website there is many listed sellers you should search those websites and see what a real sword looks like.

 

Best of luck

 

Stephen 

[Alex A]

Thats got be the worst fake ever, not sure why the handle looks like its covered in honey. Probably why you need gloves pick it up.

[Hokke]

2 minutes ago, Alex A said:

Thats got be the worst fake ever, not sure why the handle looks like its covered in honey. Probably why you need gloves pick it up.

Don't be ridiculous Alex, that isn't honey, thats historical lubricant.......no one knows where it came from, but they have done radiation scans on it to verify because radiation apparently tells EVERYTHING