Jacques

I would say Morimitsu 盛光

I said in nioi-guchi not in hamon.

Inside the nioiguchi ? If yes it's a fatal flaw

Sorry but no, it's exactly the same behavior and you can extend it to all subjects. Human stays human with all his cognitive biases.. The worse being that he will never admit it.

Ask the NBTHK experts... What's interesting is that collectors have the same mechanisms as climate skeptics: they think they know, when in fact they've only scratched the surface of the subject. Studying nihontö also means learning about the history of Japan and its civilizational practices (religion, castes, etc.).

No sword is unbreakable; the Japanese swords broke on the Mongols' boiled leather breastplates, leading Masamune to devise new forging techniques. Most of the swords that have come down to us were never used in combat - many were hoarded as soon as they were made, and were only worn for informal ceremonies (which is to be expected, given their price). The vast majority of kazu-uchimono were made during the Sengoku-jidai, and are therefore koto. An art sword is functional because the quality of the workmanship makes it a work of art. A sword of art is not a sword with a flamboyant hamon, but a sword perfectly made at every stage of its manufacture. Quality of steel, uniqueness of the hada, homogeneity of the hamon, layout of the nie, etc. Robots and machines make cars, not people, so there's no comparison.

You don't understand Masahide's approach, just as you don't understand that we call a work of art. Comparing it to cars is irrelevant

To compare a Yukihira with the Takada school is utter nonsense. Shodai Tadayoshi has never done Bungo Yukihira utsushi; he has done : Yamato den, Rai, Naoe shizu, Chôji, Muramasa, Soshu, Aoe and Samonji. In each school, there is a difference in level between smiths, and this level often decreases over time

A sword work of art is as effective as it is beautiful, whereas the reverse is not true. As for the Wazamono ranking, it should be taken with a great deal of hindsight.

He is the third generation of the Osaka branch. How to recognize Osaka and Kyo smiths

Chu jo saku. Bungo Takada is considered a minor school due to the absence of top-level artists.

The subject is so vast that it's difficult to answer; among other things, the quality of a steel and a hada are things you need to know how to evaluate. For example, it's possible for a trained eye to tell whether a sword is Koto or Shinto just by the look of the steel.

It is more relevant to judge a smith on the basis of his entire career than to judge one or another sword. The subtlety lies in knowing which are the best works of a particular smith, which the vast majority of collectors can't do.

I'ts the sandai Osaka Yoshimichi, at first glance the mei looks legit.

Franco It's not enough to say a polisher can do this - you have to prove it. Facts are facts words are only words... And many naginata naoshi are not true naginata naoshi but only made in the style...

The problem is that you can't say the polisher knows if you don't know the process. And yes, the scientific method can be applied anywhere.

Cutting hi

This sword has obviously undergone a lot of polishing since it was suriage. Don't forget that the thickening stone hasn't yet been invented, and further polishing could lead to an even worse situation.

Stay serious

Detecting a gimei is much harder than you think. You need to start by taking into account the smith's entire career This one is tokubetsu hozon (dots on Kane are in the same way than on yours)

Cheap, in 2007, a saber belonging to Napoleon Bonaparte was sold for the modest sum of €4800,000.

Why? I'm not materialistic, nor am I interested in money. Once I've studied one sword, it no longer interests me; i study another one, and so on. I'm lucky enough to have the memory of an elephant, which enables me to remember the essential characteristics of the swords I've studied. In fact, there are only 300 smiths I'm interested in: jo, jo-jo and sai-jo saku.

Ok thanks Jussy.

Jussi https://kunishitei.bunka.go.jp/heritage/detail/201/6524 It's not the same; the one i shared has a 74.2 nagasa and a 0.9 cm sori

A few hundred.