brianISaDOUCHE

thank you i’ve had lots of luck you can stop commenting look who is the troll 😆

i already said it two times not for sale even if one of you did want to buy it 😆 and if it was real and you wanted to steal it your gonna have to learn to use a boat to find me it’s my first nihonto your reverse psychology won’t work bugs bunny yes i have google the mei of masamune and most of the fakes are a strange looking squat mei too short and too thin the left half of the masa is cut off by the mekugi it was sold by a verifiable collector who has never sold a fake and gathered shin gunto and koto era blades for years

like i said if it’s fake i’m still keeping it not for sale

there’s three mekugi holes two closely spaced one a inch up and the handle end has been cut down before not in recent times i want to get it polished for sure worst case scenario if someone says it’s fake 17th century i’ll still be happy

look man i never said it’s the honjo or even real but quite possibly a old fake but there is nothing so far that says nothing that it’s a fake masamune either way i’m keeping it if it was fake or genuine i have friends in Japan i would love to visit them ans take it for inspection

file size is larger than 2.93MB limit i will have to resize i am no troll that one poster with the chinese sword is the exact opposite of me haha

look people i wouldn’t even bother you guys if i didn’t have something special and i have spent hours looking at fakes it would be productive to make a list of the masamune swords out there to compare it to to see if it’s one of the others i m working on that this is my first time on these boards i read the heihokadensho when i was a kid and used swords studied martial arts imhappy to be here i appreciate and study Japanese history and it’s a part of my family i want you to understand i bought the blade under the presumption that it may be fake but it is way old and definitely real Japanese nihonto it has nie like a real soshu blade

brian please don’t be thick headed and abusive you haven’t seen my sword yet it is a cut down tachi turned into a katana i didn’t say it’s THE honJO masamune but one of 50 masamune swords probably left floating around in the world

as far as a real soshu tanto blade with masamunes signature and hozon paper yes it’s real and i have pictures of all of it be it’s not one of the newer masamunes. i can read the kanji so don’t assume it doesn’t exist im just saying he has a real masamune in Japan and it’s always been there and that is what i compared my nihonto to i never said i have a honjo but most likely e a real kamakura era masamune i will upload pics later of higher quality

it’s a bold statement to say masamune never signed his blades as there are many with signatures there’s several in museums to compare the signature as well and for the 3rd time i didn’t say i have the honjo but another masamune

i am interested in talking with you guys and sharing nihonto i must state my name is anonymous and location etc for my protection for my first nihonto i looked and looked i found a old sword i could afford and got it based on its blade and price and authenticity a cut down tachi is what i wanted, and that’s what it is from the presence of very old mekugi holes it was shortened with masamune characters on the tang it’s definitely old not vandalism came in a shirasaya with no koshirae it is not machined steel the shirasaya is wood hand made not machined fits perfectly its carbon steel with a hamon like a rough ocean waves close together and sharp no bo hi at all and the spine has bevels needs polishing but not the most terrible condition i have a friend with a real masamune dagger with hozon paper and the signature on his blade is a perfect match on mine so the question is if it’s real which masamune is it if it’s not the honjo the blade is 25.5-26 inches long