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Great pics! Uwe, come on, don't tease! Sebastien, which student........... John, love it! What smith?

Quick peek, but I don't think the Korekazu or the Naotane mei are good.

Ordered tonight. Seems like a great reference to have on hand.

Thanks Guido! And a belated Happy Birthday sir!

Scanning around and it would be great if I could read Japanese......... Can someone here help with this Hozon paper, the attributed smith or school and if the length is listed? Thanks for any help:

Loved this one. Tameyasu:

Indeed:

Wow!! I like it.

Great pictures Wayne!!!!!! You captured the hada very well, what a great piece. What is the motohaba of the sword? Looks beefy! Thanks for the pictures, love it.

I have spent quite some time reading your entries in any thread Kunikane was mentioned and I most certainly appreciate you taking the time to respond to this one. It's an important topic to me. Thank you. You are correct, sometimes I see a blade description that states there is masame and I am hard pressed to see much of anything. Itame mixed in makes it very hard. Polish matters I would think, but also I am always surprised how poor many pictures are of swords, even from known sellers. Yamato Hosho is a dream sword, but probably not in this lifetime due to extreme cost of the swords. Kunikane line has excellent examples, and Norikatsu/Tokkatsu are very good as well. Naotane made some great masame works, but again, cost becomes an issue. Thanks for the response.

Hi Peter, First off, congrats on retirement! Hope you are settling in ok. Thanks for the well crafted answer. If I get a chance at one, I have some info to use.

Thanks Franco, yes, been through that thread a few times. Haha, exactly Jean

Well then, I would like the boards input.

I have found several Kunikane swords with masame hada work that interest me via web and research material. What generation (or generations) were the best at the work? From my studies it's the sendai, but want to know more. Thanks for any help. (Yes, I did reach out to Peter B. on this, but maybe DM's are messed up or he is busy).

Very tempting! I am a bit surprised this has not sold yet.

Looking around some more, I have found many made from brass. Maybe I had just not come across that many by chance.

His Instagram account has some pictures: https://www.instagram.com/rpm_neil/?hl=en

Love all the activity in the hamon, nice offer Ray.

I am only minimally qualified to assess swords, so when it comes to fittings I know about zero. I wanted to know how common brass tsuba are in nihonto? Is it valued? Shunned? Just wondering. Thanks.

Jeff, Like many have advised, it's best to make some in roads into study before you buy. As to your question, yes and no. See? it's not easy. I don't want to diverge into woods in the road on another topic about papers.

Can't add much to what has been posted. As usual, excellent advice. I would say $15k-$20k is a tough spot because you can get really solid swords here, but the next level up is quite the move up in price and one has to decide if that is something they want to do or not. In a similar spot myself.

Indeed Robert. An amazing example. Some lucky member bought it

It's wild, can see the hot interest.

Lot's of interest on this one: http://www.sword-auction.jp/en/content/as17183%E8%84%87%E5%B7%AE%EF%BC%9A%E5%A5%A5%E5%B7%9E%E4%BC%9A%E6%B4%A5%E4%BD%8F%E4%B8%89%E5%96%84%E6%94%BF%E9%95%B73%E4%BB%A3-wakizashi-ousyu-aizu-jyu-miyoshi-masanaga-3rd-generation It's a great looking sword, don't know much about the smith.

I do love Ishido works!