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  1. Jacques
    Kajihei is a special case, but it's worth noting that while gimei have always been made, many of those found today were made recently, and are called gendai gimei.
  2. Jacques
    A bad gimei of Moriie who was a great Kamakura Bizen Smith (Saijo)
  3. Jacques
    Run it from the mune machi to the tip of the kissaki. Personally i would say torii sori
  4. Jacques
    To see if the kissaki was reshaped or not yokote lenght = lenght from end of ko shinogi to tip of kissaki Fukura must be parallel to the ko shinogi
  5. Jacques
    I wonder if this sword has not been suriage
  6. Jacques
    Kissaki is reshaped
  7. Jacques
    Kissaki seems reshaped
  8. Jacques
    Chu-jo only, high ranks begin with jo-saku
  9. Jacques
    A well-engraved signature is by no means a sign of legitimacy. There are a few (papered) examples available on the net. Personally, I think the mei is a little too far to the right, but that's just an impression.
  10. Jacques
    Brian, I'd rather say Yamato.
  11. Jacques
    鎮 can be read Shige or Shizu
  12. Jacques
    If it's Brian who says so...
  13. Jacques
    Yasurime are yasurime. I do own a sword with gyaku takanoha which is pretty rare but it leaves me cold; having said that, as it's a suriage and mumei blade, it helped me find the blacksmith.
  14. Jacques
    No one saw the tokuho, unlike Taira Shigemori's hozon
  15. Jacques
    Yes but Saiha
  16. Jacques
    No more or less than anyone else, a dealer is a dealer, not a philanthropist.
  17. Jacques
    The problem is, as a physicist, I know that my eyes can be deceived. I know I'm an idiot, but I want to see what I'm buying.
  18. Jacques
    Not the same kanji Shige (鎮)
  19. Jacques
    Frankly, I'll always wonder how anyone could spend more than $18,000 on something we never seen other than through photos.
  20. Jacques
    There was a Taira Shigemori, but he wasn't a swordsmith. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taira_no_Shigemori
  21. Jacques
    Which generation is it ?
  22. Jacques
    I could be wrong, but I don't think this swordsmith exists.
  23. Jacques
    Gimei for The Kunihiro (Horikawa), but since there's a bunch of Kunihiro it could be one of them.
  24. Jacques
    I don't even ask myself the question...
  25. Jacques
    No the kissaki is ubu (kaeri)
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