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here are the rest.

So I decided to take pictures of the boshi on the other side. Apologies for the background as the one I used previously happened to be dirty and this was kind of spontaneous. I suspect this boshi is ko maru with some nie or yaki kuzure. I tried my best to get a picture of the habuchi. These are the best pictures I could get.

here are some additional pictures

I figured I could include some pictures of the hamon and hada from the same session as the first boshi picture attempt. These were taken during golden hour using my phones macro focus. I personally love how the sword looks in this lighting. I also should add the sword seems to be tired.

here is an additional photo

here are the pictures I managed to get. I for the life of me can't get a picture of the habuchi past the hadori from this angle.

Small update on those photos. I tried and failed miserably. taking those type of photos seems to be well above my current photo taking skills. Having no tripod and only a phone camera probably doesn't help either.

sure I'll try to get the pictures during my next day off.

I can try when I have time. I am not very good at taking photos of nihonto and as I have said before I don't have a setup. I also have trouble getting the right angle of light to view the boshi on this side, let alone take a picture of it. I have confirmed its there, but its tricky. Also to clarify, what do you mean by normal picture?

its the hira zukuri wakizashi I bought from yahoo actions Japan from my previous posts. from what I saw while trying to take pictures of the sword it does not run off. I do not have a good photo set up or easy access to a dslr camera. This was taken outside during golden hour with sword in one hand phone in the other. best I can describe it is a ko maru with round tobiyaki that have attached themselves to the ko maru temper line. Here is a picture, from the same session, that sort of shows the buildup to and beginning of the boshi. edit: I've added a rough drawing of what the boshi looks like. sorry for the quality of the drawing I suck at drawing with a mouse.

This is a type of boshi I am not familiar with. It seems as though these sort of circular elements form the actual boshi line. This was the best picture I could take of it.

Thank you for the info Grey.

What is this thing where the temperline frays apart?. Sorry for picture quality, this was done using a phone camera in one hand and the sword in the other.

It seems that yakiba page from the commercial dealers links is partially inactive. Specifically if you enter the website and you try to click on swords you get a 404 error.

Good luck on picking out a sword. Yahoo Auctions Japan is a minefield.