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This is a blade from Kotani Yasunori, signed Takenori for the blades he smithed out of the yasukuni shrine. Showa 15 = 1940 (december) 1000$ is really nice for this blade. Would of course need a full polish but I think it would be a great investment If you don't want to keep im sure people will make you offers !

Showa 13, 12th month. december 1938 It looks very good to me. Maybe you can share better photos of the blade ?

Oh that is yours ? Congratulations ! Maybe you can share photos of the blade and koshirae so can see better than on ohmura site. Thank you for sharing.

catawiki's experts are a joke Estimate € 6 100 - € 6 800 Ahah yea sure

Oh you mean the smith, its Kotani Yasunori (yasukuni-jinja smith)

No sorry maybe if you contact aoi they will tell ?

https://imgur.com/a/7Cuq5YM enjoy ahah

From France here, I had to pay 1200€ of custom fees for a sword from AOI Art which was 20% of the price I paid

Kotani Yasunori 1936

Hello Volker Do you have any links to read Mr Han Bing Siong's work ?. I have already seen that you posted 3 pages of it discussing about which he considered the best among Yasukuni smiths, but if you have the full thing, or any way to buy it please tell us.

Very nice find congratulations, could you please show more close up pictures of the blade ?

Thank you for sharing this list.

Beautiful, thanks. I haven't seen a lot of Yasutoku's son Yasutoshi, thats a very nice exemple.

Lovely, can we see photos of the blade ?