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  1. Bugyotsuji
    Sword shops will ask you what you are looking for. Antique katana? Will you want it in shirasaya or full koshiraé? Papered or unpapered. (Rough budget?) Is there any particular age, or area, or blade pattern, or smith that particularly attracts you already? This will help them narrow down what to bring out and show you, wasting no-one’s time.
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    金工 Kinkō Precious metals artisan
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    Back of the calf, above the knee? The eye of Sauron?
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    Good question. This is why we all collect reference books, etc.
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    Showa 17, with tag by some top graffiti artist!
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    That's great, Shawn. Thanks. 表面 omote men, front side (?) 先人 senjin, people who went before, ancestors(?) (Just throwing these into the pot while doing other things!)
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    The lettering or characters look to have been incised upside-down.
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    On the other hand, if you are simply a tourist today, avoid the Golden Triangle! https://japantoday.com/category/features/travel/where-to-go-in-Japan—please-anywhere-but-tokyo-kyoto-or-osaka
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    This particular name Sukenobu is often alternatively read Akinobu, according to Ray's link above.
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    Shawn there are many ways to upload photos here, including Step One, cropping out unnecessary background material of your photos first. Personally I am surprised that 'X-Ray' could see anything on there!
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    Well, we could go back into our photo archives and find interesting things that long ago went their merry way. After reading your post, Colin, I discovered this for example. Although the sukashi Netsuke is solid silver (better than .925 sterling) it had to be described as 'white metal'. And the reverse
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    Wooden, or wood Netsuke. Many of my good wood netsuke took wing, but I still have a few left. If anyone wishes to post, please do so. In the meantime I'll fish some out and post photos, in order to keep the thread rolling.
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    Thank you, Tony. Correct choices so far on rust removal. Great series of photographs, and I am working on your smith now, if Uwe does not beat me to it! Actually difficult to read as one crucial character is not crystal clear for me. For the smith it could be 摂州住榎並屋徳兵衛作 Sesshu Ju Enamiya Tokubei Saku As to the forging method, 地鉄鍛二重総巻張 Jigane Kitae Niju So-makibari Enami or Enamiya were a famous large family of around 150 gunsmiths through the Edo period in Osaka.
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    But the shape and quality of the blade itself should help you to narrow down the age and the Hizen smith who made it.
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    Dominik, it’s been suriagé cut short so all that is left is ‘living in Hizen’ Hizen no Kuni Jū 肥前国住
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    Out walking yesterday and saw some bulrushes. The heads explode into a fluffy kind of cotton wool. Actually they were probably not the only sort of tinder used for starting fires.
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    Maybe 勝正 Katsumasa 正和十八年八月 August of Showa 18
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    越前住 Etchizen Jū (Living in Etchizen) 伯耆平藤…前? Hōki, Taira/Hira Fuji (+Mae/Zen?) (The pronunciation of the last two or three kanji will depend partly on what was cut off.)
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    五つ鉄線 六つ鉄線 Does your clematis Kamon have five, or six petals? Six maybe…
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    Great Tony! Can we see the Bisen breech screw? (And that looks like a Kaō at the end of the Mei.)
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    They are a standard tool for shirasaya makers and artisans who work with sword fittings. Clients may request a certain Koshiraé be used for their blade, for example.
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    That’s why bamboo mekugi are better than wooden pegs!
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    The kind of thing you might hand to a giant Sumo wrestler in your army to scare the enemy. Saw one of these for sale at an Japanese antiques fair a year or two back. Seriously tempted, but two things stayed my hand. 1. It was more than I was willing to pay, although I remember debating whether to make a run to a cash machine anyway. 2. Without some clever packing, it wouldn't have fitted into my suitcase.
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    國友弥兵衛尉金次 Kunitomo Yahei no Jo Kanetsugu(?) Interesting to find a Kunitomo smith in … do you think that is that Sesshū Jū, Osaka? You would think they might be rivals. I can’t imagine a Settsu/Sakai smith in Kunitomo, so it does give us a measure of their relative status as bases of manufacture. 鍛巻張 Kitae/Tan makibari barrel forged with (spiral) metal binding(s)
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    Why? What is it about this sword that attracts you? The Mei screams ‘fake’!
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