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oh here is the sword specs for the fellow who was asking.. here are all the details and some pics...

I just had it declared as the value of the shinsa fee which is 27000 yen ,it came with a declaration that it is an antique never got charged a penny.... :D

Hi it only got the hozon paper and not tokubetsu hozon ,i kind of expected it to fail tokubetsu hozon because the maker is chu jo saku rated and its a bungo sword,the blade is lovely though ,near flawless ,shape and curve is nice and polish is pretty good so i suspect it failed tokubetsu just because of its reputation rather than its actual quality ,i really like it and it was a decent price .

well i got lucky ,no duty at all to pay =) here it is...

ah great stuff , i will contact aoi art as they put my sword in for me ,was it just a verbal result or are the papers done and swords are released?

hi all anyone got a result yet from march NBTHK shinsa ??

hi thanks for replys fellows, the sword went for hozon/tokubetsu shinsa via aoi-art ,i expected it to take 2-3 months for the papers and return of the sword but you would think a verbal result would be given after a month perhaps? ah well !

hi any of you good fellows had any results from the march nbthk shinsa yet?

ah! i know that feeling whe dreading the wife find out how much haha! well hope it works out for you Alex stupid question but who are the other good nihonto dealers in Japan? ,i just found aoi-art .

so customs ignore the fact its antique and just charge the vat and duty anyway do you have to appeal the decision and prove its an antique? did you buy a very expensive sword? i bought a palanquin yari a while back and never got charged anything.

hi yes it is signed but the tang was in poor condition, here are the makers details.. Naminohira Yukichika was 61st head of the Saka-no-ue Naminohira branch of the Taniyama Naminohira school of Satsuma. The 57th generation Yasumasa begat three sons who each formed three branch families known by the locality of their locations where they settled. Thus, Yasukuni, the eldest formed the main branch as 58th Head (Honke), Yasumasa, the son of the above formed the Hori branch as 58th Head, and the third son, Yasusumi, formed the Saka-no-ue branch as the the 58th Head (Chaku-ke). Thus, Yukichika was his great-grandson. Yukichika died in Bunsei 3(1820)

fantastic news ,i will ask the fellow at aoi-art to write all over the box that its 350 years old i feel for you fellows if your ordering a 10000 dollar sword ,hey send it to me and i will put it down as 50 bucks for ya haha!

it was shinogi zukuri ,i dont have anything against shorter blades but as i was only looking to buy 1 sword my preference was a 18" to 22" nagasa but when i noticed how beefy it was and that it was in very good condition i just went for it, heres a pic ...

hi mariuszk i have had a hozon papered satsuma shinshinto wakizashi prior to buying this one ,i had to sell it because i wanted a longer blade and the satsuma had only a 14" nagasa , the thing i loved about the satsuma wakizashi was it was so wide 36mm and 30mm at the kissaki . yea i was lucky to get this sword before you adrian ,i was going to buy a more expensive sword at first but decided on this as it was so clean and a good price ,once i read that the samurai of the day liked the bungo swords i thought hey if its good enough for a samurai its good enough for me lol!