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Jacques

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  1. Run it from the mune machi to the tip of the kissaki. Personally i would say torii sori
  2. 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
  3. I wonder if this sword has not been suriage
  4. Chu-jo only, high ranks begin with jo-saku
  5. 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.
  6. Brian, I'd rather say Yamato.
  7. 鎮 can be read Shige or Shizu
  8. If it's Brian who says so...
  9. 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.
  10. No one saw the tokuho, unlike Taira Shigemori's hozon
  11. No more or less than anyone else, a dealer is a dealer, not a philanthropist.
  12. 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.
  13. Not the same kanji Shige (鎮)
  14. Frankly, I'll always wonder how anyone could spend more than $18,000 on something we never seen other than through photos.
  15. There was a Taira Shigemori, but he wasn't a swordsmith. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taira_no_Shigemori
  16. Which generation is it ?
  17. I could be wrong, but I don't think this swordsmith exists.
  18. Gimei for The Kunihiro (Horikawa), but since there's a bunch of Kunihiro it could be one of them.
  19. I don't even ask myself the question...
  20. No the kissaki is ubu (kaeri)
  21. As Juyo zufu says this sword is an ubu wakizashi.
  22. Nihonto meikan lists a Kanemitsu working in Tensho. It's an unknown smith.
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