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Can’t believe there’s no interest in early, long, Yasukuni shrine swords that were professionally restored at prices below some sellers would want for later, shorter examples that were either not restored at all or had amateur polishes.

Have 2 early, 27” Yasunori in professional polish available for sale. $10,000 shipped and insured individually through NMB, or $18,000 shipped and insured if you buy the pair through NMB (US buyers, for international buyers I need to work with another sword dealer who has an export license so there’ll be additional costs). Payments via PayPal. Shipped via usps priority express. These are extremely nice examples of premium Yasukuni swords by 2 of the best at the forge. 1. https://www.ebay.com...r=artemis&media=COPY 2. https://www.ebay.com...r=artemis&media=COPY

Sukehiro is the smith.

Look at that activity, nice one!

Congrats! From the Yasukuni blades I’ve seen, both Yasunori smiths made nicer and more interesting blades compared to the other Yasukuni smiths.

Incredible offering, Ray!

Wonder where they are/went.

Thanks guys. Hopefully I can get more up soon. These are all long, early, by top smiths, and 2 are in full, fresh, pro polish. The other not in fresh polish is in mint as found, war-time condition.

Here’s a few I’ve gotten around to listing. Let me know if you have any questions. I have a few more I’ll post when time permits. 1. Kajiyama Yasunori - https://www.ebay.com...r=artemis&media=COPY 2. Kotani Yasunori - https://www.ebay.com...r=artemis&media=COPY 3. Tomita Sukehiro - https://www.ebay.com...r=artemis&media=COPY

I recently auctioned one with no # on the saya in decent shape, hammer price was a whopping $1800 or so. 🤦‍♂️

Congrats! Properly restore that bad boy and bring it back to life.

1. Maybe. If it fits well then definitely. Hard to mix and match blades and saya. 2. Don’t know, not something that’d interest me anyways. 3. Kanehide was a seki smith and many of the ones I’ve owned and seen throughout the years had small seki stamp in addition the to the star stamp. always liked the Kanehide blades I’ve seen, minus they were usually shorter. I’d still have one if the nagasa were >= 27”.

You could submit it to shinsa at the April Chicago sword show as is. If it got a nice attribution and/or rating in Chicago you could consider restoring and submitting to NBTHK in Japan.

You can buy high end gendaito in that range in full polish with papers. Japanese sites are best bet atm given the advantageous exchange rates. Just be careful as they’re flooded with gimei gendai.

Possibly Rai Kunimitsu.