Why i dislike this dealer

[Sukaira]

In general I don't think Aoi Art builds cobbled together koshirae for their blades. They deal in volume and I am pretty sure Tsuruta just gets these as-is for the most part as he runs all over the country picking up blades. That being said I almost always ask them to price the blade without koshirae and they usually knock off a few hundred to a few thousand USD depending on the piece. Sometimes its a more recently made or well kept koshirae though, and that is worth keeping.

Edited October 27 by Sukaira

[lonely panet]

Yep hes a honest dealer

https://www.aoijapan.com/katana-mumei-unsigned/

[Bruce Pennington]

I don't understand this last post.

[vajo]

The question is was it made by him or was it made/ changed wartime.

 

 

 

 

The Koshirae is made up of parts. The Seppa are from a Type 3. But we've seen something like this before. Bring your sword to war or assembled after war?
 

I didn't like this part.

Edited Wednesday at 07:03 PM by vajo