Amon

Gimei? No problem. Fittings of the poorest kind? "Modest but average". Age or quality of a blade? Who cares? It's probably Japanese and therefore a little piece of art. Let's reduce NMB to the question: Is it of Japanese origin or not? We can take things easy again and play the game like most of the Meiji boys did. No more painstaking research, no more disappointing answers. It looks Japanese from a distance? Great! Any more questions? reinhard Please enlight me with "most of the Meiji boys did", everything else is cristal clear...

Thanks John, much appriciated. Best regards, John

Hello! Any help with this mei is much appriciated. It also has what it looks like a seki stamp. Thanks in advance! Regards,

I've never intended to make anyone confused and didn't either say that it looks like an Paul Chen only that it reminds. Sorry if anyone got confused. Regards

The hada kind of reminds me of what you could see on Paul Chens higher end swords and I can't really see any hamon at all. Regards

Hi Mike! Have you seen the katana for sale here, lots to enjoy and with papers as you want. Plus it's in your pricerange. Regards

You got me again, I have to stop using sunglasses when reading my books :lol: :D Anyway, huge thanks Jacques

Thanks Jacques, your help is much appriciated. Since many of these smiths looks to be Ko-Naminohira smiths do you think that it is a possibility that the sword might be older then shinto? Regards,

Hi members! A little more help is appriciated. I have only found that Aoki Motonaga used higaki on his nakagos but does anyone have any more suggestions to look for. thanks in advance! Regards

Hamon looks like the ones on Paul Chens swords and like Peter just wrote so are they acid etched. Regards

Never had any kind of problem, express mail is the best way to avoid it

Hi M! There's an Masatoshi with Nbthk papers at ebay that fits your budget very well. Regards

Hi M! Why not consider a mumei blade? For that kind of money you should get a decent blade that you later on could send to shinsa perhaps. Just a thought... Regards

out and riding that bicycle again :lol: Thanks Jacques, this will certainly narrow my search

Thanks Jacques! And if not Satsuma could it be a sue Naminohira?

Hi Jacques! It looks like the yasuri has higaki form. So there's a possiblilty that it is a Naminohira sword?

Hi Gunther and thanks. I enjoy it much, it's a nice and healthy blade

Some more pictures of the blade. Once again, thanks in advance. Best regards, John Amon

Hello members! Any kind of help with this blade is much appriciated! It's a mumei wakizashi that I have been trying to figure out what kind of school/smith who might have done it for a long time now. Am I totally wrong when I'm guessing it might be an shinto echizen blade? Here are som measurements: nagasa 45cm sori 1.1 cm motokasane 0.7cm. sakikasane 0.5cm motohaba 3.0cm sakihaba 2.0cm Thanks in advance!

Hope you will recover soon Brian and that everything goes well for you. Ps. Does beer count's

Very interesting daisho Carlo and with that beautiful kake I understand that you are still in pain. Regards // John Amon

Hello everybody! My name is John Amon and lives in Sweden with my family and runs my own company. I've been practicing kendo and iai for many years now and for the last three years I took a new path and started to collect Nihonto and study them. I have been at this forum almost a year now and though I havent't post much I have learnt so much more, thank you all for that. This is a very friendly place and a great forum so thanks Brian and all of you that makes this interesting. Best regards // John Amon

Hello! I'm 110 % sure that the blade is a Paul Chen. I got a couple that I'm training with and they all have the same look on the nakago. It's a modern reproduction for example cutting exercise. Best regards, John Amon