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Dear All, I'm looking for any information about Hizen Sadatoshi (Kan-ei 1624), which can be found in Hawley's under SAD706. Toko Taikan is also meant to have a reference (page 256). Sorry, I don't have the book, can't tell what's there. Any help or hints where to look would be greatly appreciated. Kind Regards, Stan N.

I have bought few things from Mike. He's always putting very detailed and fair descriptions of his items (fair prices too). No doubt I'll be buying from him again as soon as something interesting pops up. :D Regards, Stan

Brian, I have some pics here: http://nihontoclub.com/node/143 No pics of saya though: it's under restoration at the moment. Thank you! Really appreciated. Regards, Stan N.

Hi Brian, I've got a very similar tanto with shinogi-zukuri. My first guess was the tanto to be a point of a broken sword (sugata looked somewhat incomplete, but maybe it's just because I'm not used to shinogi-zukuri tanto). However, condition and shape of nakago (similar to yours what I can gather from the pictures, but with more pronounced kengyo nakagojiri) could be as well suggesting it wasn't shortened. So I stopped at 'the boy's sword' version. Regards, Stan N.

Hi Reinier, I live in Ireland right on the sea coast. So I guess humidity levels are somewhat similar to Netherlands. Just for comparison, there's a de-humidifier running in the room downstairs (where I keep some blades) and it extracts about 3 litres of water every 3 days After some reading and thinking about the best way to preserve swords I chose to use choji oil (at least for some time. I might try not to use it), fine photo lens cleaning cloth and pure alcohol instead of uchiko. It works perfectly for me so far Regards, Stan