Nihontocollector752

Yes, buy it

You should buy it

Mainline Hizen 1st to 3rd generations of Tadayoshi/Tadahiro or Masahiro should start at 20k for a papered (T. Hozon) and polished blade with Koshirae. The reason you should and everyone should avoid Gimei is because when you look at gimei you are only able to identify the Hataraki as feature sets. They have no affiliation to the smith in question so if all you want to do is identify (ver bad) hataraki on a sword buy gimei. If you are now at 2k, wait till you save 2k more and buy a beautiful papered Tanto or Wakizashi and go from there, what is the rush? And stop asking about bullshit on ebay already, you've had the same answers for every post - its bullshit

Links to the actual item? Edit : nevermind, got it, i will be buying this one, thanks @Swords

As far as utility based swords they are amazing

It's rust. Surface nie cannot be seen using random lighting and images from a phone or substandard setting, you need a finely polished sword and the right environment. There is a difference between grain and nie. To know is to know and when you know you'll know.

I hate to say this but your sword is not polished enough to see adequate nie.

Again, you guys can only comment on juyo blades because all data revolves around those document based swords, so how many Thozon and hozon signed Yamato swords exist @Jussi Ekholm Also, you think there isn't a visible difference between Tegai and Shikkake? @Jussi Ekholm @Gakusee

I said signed from hozon to juyo, not specifically juyo only. This is on reference to not spending "big bucks" on mumei Yamato swords, which i agree because it is possible to find signed kamakura examples. Yamato as a whole has its own place and varying degrees of quality.

There are a good amount of signed Yamato swords in hozon to juyo

@Swords you should buy everything you see on ebay

I stand corrected. But having gone through a few more examples of the various lineages does this signature look authentic? Cannot argue with the forging style though

Why is the mei positioned in the centre of the Nakago? The areas of the mei over the Mekugi-ana seem to indent into the mekugi ana with downward inlay indents, almost like they were intentionally cut over the Mekugi ana

I wasn't referring to your height at all

You also have to look at the quality of how said Takada or other shinto/shinshinto smiths carved their mei. They carved mei with excellent quality and precision. This looks like "chicken scratch" mei. Hastily done, placement is wrong, etc.

100cm nagasa to compensate

What is up with all the crap pictures and lack of research with OPs on this forum....surely there is a thread that states how to post pictures for an informative discussion....

@Jacques D. yep Fujiwara Takada are shinto to shinshinto which have this variation of Hamon, it is not souley Bizen.

We need to put all the features together to get a clear picture. As Paulb has said.

Aren't day swords far smaller?

I also feel the hada may have been chemically enhanced

Taira Takada no, Fujiwara Takada more likely ?

Ok that changes quite a few things, i wish i could see this in hand but alas, can you please please do a few more and try to get hataraki in the pics

Actually the hamon is very close to Takada, remember they were heavily influenced by Bizen and Mino and could replicate quite a few styles.

Karma has nothing to do with this obscure sword. Someone once upon a time needed to sell it and put an under the radar name on it, removed some markings or stamps and got a buyer. The OP is still refusing to place pictures that show the sugata in form with kantei via pictures and or any meaningful pictures of the hataraki. What are we supposed to do? Oh wait lets aim for a kantei over mekugi ana that no one knows anything about. Brilliant, just brilliant.