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yes seems so, but the blade looks quite nice anyway

Hi, Still available, open to offers.

Hi, Still available for 2500$ USD + shipment costs. Paypal on bank2bank wire-transfer. Located in Poland/EU, so no customs within EU.

@Tim at Amoskeag thank you for posting. With all due respect, why the price? 25k$ IMHO is max/tops for this sword, even overpriced if I can be honest. What is so special about this sword? Anyway, if you will be able to sell it for price like that, then let me know. I have few swords I would like to exchange (sell and buy something new). My asking price is 3k$ for example, so if you can sell it for 10k$ then ...

@mike900 Example: https://tokyo-nihont...koshirae-nbthk-hozon Dealer @Seiko was advertising this blade here on this forum, wanted 2k USD. I didn't buy, now I regret. Anyway, you can see what you can get for 2k, so no worries, you will find something decent for <1k$

Guys, be respectful. If you think the start price is high, it's an auction and that will decide if it sells or not. I like the fact that auctioneers will post a heads up here. Thanks for that Tim, and good luck. Lovely sword.

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/296351643175 Is it just me or does this look like Grover kissing a mirror or two Proboscis monkeys ?

I see we both watch his website. Great company to deal with

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Unfortunately, these are just inspection marks. If you orientate the image to the right you can see them better: ア二三?昭⚪︎ This translates to A23? followed by the Sho(wa) stamp, and the arsenal stamp, which I think may be Nagoya Army Arsenal (Nagoya Rikugun Zoheisho)

Hey if you got the money and you like it. Anything is possible at auction. Just means a very very very slow reale time frame

Thanks for posting it Tim . My fiends above may or may not be right in their assessments . Bonhams recently had some pretty big estimates too Good luck with the sale

You have some very fine examples of schools there

I found a "Do it yourself Futatsu" just a little work with a hammer! NAH! I don't think so.

Some info on the schools 1 - Mino (later gen) 2 - Shingen 3 - Shingen 4 - Shingen 5 - Heianjo 6 - Heianjo 7 - Tempo/ Heianjo 8 - Signed ‘Masanori’ (正矩作) likely Bushu 9 - Mito 10 - Aizu-Shoami 11 - Bushu 12 - Signed 'Choshu Hagi ju Nakai Zensuke/ Tomotsune' (長州萩住中井善助/友恒) 13 - Ko-kinko

Thank you so much, I'm already reading some articles and learning so much. This truly is a treasure trove of information. Thanks as well @GeorgeLuucas, I have both sites bookmarked for lots of future reading.

Off the top of my head it says, …can you get even more clearer shots of the writing? Although it appears to be an ancient Chinese hand gonne, it looks to me as if someone has added rather clumsy pre-WW2 Japanese Kanji and Katakana script to it, for whatever reason. Potentially an interesting object!

"There will always be a steady flow of Tadayoshi, Ko-Mihara, Bungo Takeda, Shinto Waks, Uda, etc. These aren't going anywhere, they constitute the majority of the items exchanged. The pressure concentrates at the top of the field, this is normal and healthy." This is where ignorance and misunderstanding of nihon-to starts. A masterpiece of shodai Tadayoshi of Hizen, a masterpiece of Ko-Mihara Masaie, a wakizashi-masterpiece of Nanki Shigekuni can equal and even surpass a blade by Ko-Bizen Tomonari in quality and in even in market price. What matters is the quality of the individual blade and its condition. Those who can't tell the difference might better focus on used cars as a field of investing money. BTW Whining about the fact, that there are no Leonardos or Caravaggios to find online in Italy for a "reasonable" price is.... reinhard

There was a good discussion about it recently, but I haven’t heard if there has been any updates. I know Ray’s site, Swords of Japan, has some articles. The below thread has the links, and also some good photos + discussion about it. Really good stuff in there. All the best, -Sam

I believe you can access it on the Internet Archive, but also here (a bit more user friendly): https://onihonto.com...onto-ca-yuhindo-com/ I believe both are lacking many of the photos, but the text is there.

Yikes. That's all I've got to say on it.

I've seen a few Kanetoshi. All didn't have any stamps, and were very good swords. As far as I know, he didn't make Showato.

Are there any surviving copies of his blog? I re-read the tribute post to him and there were talks of backing up his content but I don't see anywhere that that happened. I would love to read his posts/studies on nihonto and top level swords. His comments here on swords and shinsa from old threads have taught me so much.

So it says OTTOMH in Chinese is That the maker or word meaning something? thanks DocLane

OTTOMH, Chinese... BaZZa.