Tohagi

Realy, realy beautyfull ! I love it !

That's the issue with fukure, when you have bubble early in the folding process, it's spread anywhere when foldind... it's like folding to make bread... I have a sword with the same flaw at the same place... a pity. Best Eric

Very helpfull thank you very much !

Apparently the linck is not avoiable for Europe, I'll try with vpn later. The work on the waki of the video is very close. Unfortunably the nakago is not shown. What was the meï ? 越前住人兼則 ? Thank you for your help! Very appreciated ! Best, Eric

...only one I found is 越前国住人兼則 but it is Echizen kuni junin Kanenori... Maybe a gimeï cut down to look Soshin after all.

Thank you for your answer, I was feeling lonely... I found no example Echizen junin... on index or web. Maybe the nin kanji is another kanji being cut ?...

BTW tsuba is a decent Kagamishi tsuba... (miror makers).

@Rivkin, I feel it ko mihara too, on this picture you can close up the kissaki, I guess a long waterfall kaeri...

If it is usefull, I can provide more pictures... By the way, what is the point of cutting down such a waki on the middle of the mei ? It was allready quite short ...

Suguha hamon, shows a little of good hada (despite out of polish and spider rust)

Hello gentlemen (and Lady), I have a cold case for our nihonto detective's community: In 2012 I won an auction at Tajan's, a nice little waki out of polish. I let it as it for 13 years... Saturday, my nephew and godson is getting graduated as officer at St Cyr Coetquidan (kind of french Westpoint). I wish to give him this waki as a gift. There is part of a suriage mei: Echizen junin... I was told by a relative at the time that somewhere betwen "not so many" and "few" smithes of Echizen used junin... Here is the case

Very nice tanto !

Yes, authentic but not top grade and in poor condition... Is it for a training sword? Best, Eric