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Yup..very small soldier holding a Katana. I don't think it's a tachi. That motohaba is at least 3.2cm. I bet it's a Gendaito. Kanenaga maybe..Kanefusa? Hmm..I think I want to find it. (if it's not destroyed)

Yes Nobukuni and Kanenori.. Thank you @ROKUJURO @Ray Singer and @Mark

Thank you Jean. I believe it's the flash of the camera.

@Spartancrest Here are some close up images.. After taking a closer look part of me says that this is a nanban tsuba.

It probably had a second(before the other 2) mekugi hole below suriaged tip of the nakago.

@Spartancrest Yes, but it also looked as its been hammered after rim removal. To give a better shape, smoother edges maybe? I don’t know just thinking out loud. But you are probably right

These are great!! You really need to turn this into an article! It is going to be very valuable

I’ll take some better pics when i go back home. I came to Istanbul for vacation also, i can’t see the john voight pic! It just says image.png

@Spartancrest what do you think about the shape..perhaps a mon? @Infinite_Wisdumb indeed!

Wow @Spartancrest!! This is some academic level work. I guess someone drilled it to see what's inside or tried to make a necklace I'm not sure. So this is a suriage tsuba.. from a wakizashi to a tanto Thank you very much for your hard work!

Can anyone recognize the shape or school of this tsuba? I'm stuck.

@Baba Yaga You clearly didn't even read the question. He's asking about Nagashi lines and you are talking about yasurime. Lets imagine the question was Yasurime...How could he able to search it without knowing the word? On top of that, what's wrong with helping out a new member?

Thank you! Happy to help

There are no stupid questions John..

Had to go through works of the disciples of Masamune. Lucky I guess

Possibly?

Hiromitsu

A user on Reddit bought an abandoned house in Nagano and found some magazines while cleaning out. He found 70 of them but scanned 6 so I though I should share it. https://issuu.com/ww2japan edit: sorry if I posted on the wrong section.

So true.

Looks 備陽長船住 But somethings wrong with the signature..Gimei or not I like it

Yup..chinese..sorry

Non taken. But please, first thing you have to do is to enjoy it. You have an authentic Japanese Sword. Being older doesn't make it more precious or more expensive. As I said, it's not easy to age by their pictures. The last picture you shared looks Kanbun, but your is not *that straight. Which is fine, unless the seller advertised it as a Kanbun. That rust on nakago doesn't seem very dark to me..(again, might be the pictures) So koto is out of the question.. I also don't know why it has 3 mekugi-ana...perhaps someone wanted to make it look older than it is? So my bet will be early to late shinshinto... Attaching a shinshinto nakago..In shinshinto period, they made koto looking blades in different shapes.

When you ask a question, what else you expect to hear? It's not easy to age swords by their photos.