nulldevice

I saw that blade in person last week. Very nice, very tight. Kotetsu personally isn't for me, but they let offered to let us see it even though they knew I was mainly looking at earlier koto blades.

Did you find any worth pursuing at DTI? A number of tables had a lot of very cheap blades and I kept thinking back on this thread when I saw you wandering around the show!

Unfortunately the Darcy you’re quoting passed away in recent years However there are other members here who will probably be able to answer your question about top blades at auction. One such blade was the Mikazuki Kanemitsu from the Paul Davidson collection that was auctioned off this year. More info on that can be found here: https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2025/crescent-moon-the-mikazuki-kanemitsu-from-the-paul-l-davidson-collection?lotFilter=AllLots

It has Juyo papers and a nice koshirae. Price is unknown. I know a few people who asked and nobody got an answer. They were very kind to let me see the blade however and study it.

https://kanji.sljfaq.org This site works well for unknown kanji when they’re drawn clearly on the blade. You draw them and once you have the correct or most of the correct kanji, you can start your search and find the correct smith pretty easily using other nihonto-specific indexes.

I don’t remember who had the Go. Iida had the Yoshimitsu and many other phenomenal blades Sokendo had the signed Yasutsuna

Shingendo had the following that I remember: Osafune Motoshige osafune Chikakage Norishige Sairen Ko Aoe Tsugu(yoshi?) I can’t remember, very slender blade other standouts from the show were lots of signed Rai tanto, an Awataguchi Yoshimitsu, Ko Hoki signed Yasutsuna, TJ Go, Ko Bizen signed Masatsune, 3rd TJ Yukimitsu daito, and many many others that I can’t name them all.

I have a photo of Eirakudo and Shindendos shop.

I have seen this blade and it is spectacular

I’ve been here for 6 days already! Seen a couple of amazing swords already and excited for much more this weekend!

I will be there!

Yeah I agree. Posting 11 swords here and asking "Which is legit or not" with the hopes of buying one of them isn't the best way to get into this hobby IMO.

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