Kurogasa55

Well said

The book is in reprint. It is on Amazon for 5 bucks. Just ordered a copy

Excellent book Clive. I was very glad to add it to my library

I ordered the book about 3 days ago and it is already shipped and should be here tomorrow or so. A lot of other people told me that it is on back order now until at least september.

Is anyone able to tell me what this character means on this tsuba that i have? Any help would be greatly appreciated. http://s209.photobucket.com/albums/bb13 ... C00046.jpg

Yeah he tried to sell me two swords as well.

21 years old Been interested since i was 13. Been an Iaido/Kenjutsu student since then as well Been collecting Nihonto for awhile now. 4 swords all together. One is a WW2 era showa-to. The other 3 are old samurai swords that are unsigned. No plans on quitting collecting

thank you all for the information. I appreciate it

i bought the sword on ebay so you will be able to read both sides of the inscription in the pictures but i have yet to upload pictures that i have taken. The pics that he took do not show the very bottom but you can read the inscription for me and see if i made any errors. Here is the link. http://cgi.ebay.com/SIGNED-ANTIQUE-JAPA ... 19bd7078f8

Hi everyone, i am new to the forum and i have a question about a sword i just got. The sword is signed as being made in the first month of 1945 by Sukemitsu(made at Yasukuni shrine presumably). It is in civilian fittings, old tsuka,tsuba,menuki etc. What interests me about the sword is that at the bottom of the tang there is another mekugi hole with a very large amount of rust on it, which leads me to believe that it is a much older blade. The other old, old blades that i have are all black rusted tangs just like the very bottom of this tang. Only the very bottom by that hole is rusted in that way and the rest of the tang is much newer looking. My question for you is, do you think this is a much older blade even though it is signed as being made in 1945? any help will be greatly appreciated. Brandon