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Thank you every one for all the help so far! I have just one more question I think, sorry if its super lame but how much would a sword have been back in 1523 or so? thank you Lucy D

Thank you so much everyone, . This works,put,perfectly I was able to convince him to take a vacation to show me his childhood home of San Francisco in August if all goes well. I think for Christmas I will buy him some more books or something about what he told me any advice is still welcome even on books. thank you everyone Lucy

Thank you everyone very much, . I spoke with my inlaws we are thinking of alternatives to swords. This is a little more,difficult than we thought. But I was able to get a little info out of him I asked a vague question while he was busy and he gave me a vague answer, he said his favorite school is hojoji but he usually is drawn to Bizen and Soshu styles I may have miss understood what he said ot how he,said it but I'm sure the names are right. Would anyone be able to point me where I can find info on these? And also info on sword shows if possible please I'm sorry if these are stupid questions. And thank you for the offer Joe but we live a ways a away in Casper Wyoming thank you so much for the offer thank you, Lucy

Thank you, I'm thinking I'm not to sure what to do I never got into collecting anything so this is all new to me. You are all the experts in open to suggestions. We live in Casper Wyoming, to the best of my knowledge there is nothing sword related not even a iaido dojo near by. I will talk to him tomorrow to see if I can get anymore info from him

I understand where he is coming from kind of, I think he is just being stubborn about this whole situation, he is uncomfortable with it. He doesn't know we are doing this for him, if it was just me trying I don't think I could afford it at with time but his parents are being very generous. I really want him to be able to hold a katana especially one he owns and be able to see,all the details while he still can. I mean he won't be so blind he can't,see anything at all its just expected he will continue to loose his detail vision. I'm not sure how to word it I was never good with medical stuff. I will see if I can weasel any info out of him. thank you everyone, Lucy

Hoanh, thank you, his parents and I have tried,asking or at least hinting (we want,this to be a surprise) and he honestly won't talk about it much anymore he has been focusing on getting several other things figured out and he for some reason feels it is an unnecessary thing at this moment. We still really want to do this for him we are just kinda wandering in the dark. And sorry for spelling and the weird way of speaking in coming off a night shift and waiting for my day shift to start Lucy

Brian, I'm not 100% sure as when he used to talk about it I would tune him out or no pay full attention lol. I have ran into issues about him answering questions but his father remembers alot of what he said he wanted his goal was to eventually own a sword from ever major era of Japanese history that I remember for sure. I don't think fittings matter much to him at this point. But I remember him talking alot about a type of spear that was also sometimes used,as a sword? I don't think age matters too much we usually say with him,the older it is the more interesting he will find it. He was going to school for,archeology I don't know if this matters much either but he is fairly fluent in Japanese. thank you, Lucy

Hello, I'm here to ask for assistance in finding a katana for my husband. I suppose I should start with some back story, my husband has had an interest in Japanese swords and spears most all his life. He has been,saving up to buy one for as long as I have known him (about 7 years now) but we have ran into some,issues over the years and were forced to use what was saved. The biggest issue now is my husband is going blind. He has a tumor that has caused some complications and he is now loosing his vision. His parents and I have been getting some money together and we are hoping we can get him one by Christmas. We currently have a budget of about 5000 USD. So my big question is what do we look for and where should I look? My husband has lots of books but only one is in English. He also refuses to tell me what to look for saying we don't need to spend the money right now. Any help would be greatly appreciated thank you Lucy