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hi @Toki , welcome, nice to see more people from germany joining

From Markus Sesko Book: KIYOHARU (清春), Gentoku (元徳, 1329-1331), Suō – “Kiyoharu” (清春), “Bōshū-jū Niō Kiyoharu saku” (防州住二王清春作), Niō school, according to tradition the son of Kiyonaga (清長) KIYOHARU (清春), Hōtoku (宝徳, 1449-1452), Suō ` “Kiyoharu” (清春), “Niō Kiyoharu” (二王清春), Niō-school, according to tradition the son of Kiyozane (清真) KIYOHARU (清春), Ōnin (応仁, 1467-1469), Suō – “Kiyoharu” (清春), “Bōshū-jū Kiyoharu” (防州住清春), Kaifu group (海部), according to tradition this is the early signature of the Kaifu-smith Fusayoshi (房吉

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Don't understand why some people comparing different time epoch and argue which is the best. Personally i think in every time epoch, there are made wonderful blades.

thank you!

hi, can somebody translate this old paper? thank you Oli

thank you, what was fast!

Hi, can somebody translate this Sayagaki, Thanks Oli

or do you mean hitatsura? I think muneyaki is only on the back.

Muneyaki on the hira-ji?

a little better pic

Hi, i am not an expert, i am on the beginning, for me the fascinate part of Shinshinto, is the Fukkoto movement. You have a big diversity of blades across from all styles and the Sugata isn't so uniform like in Shinto. Price is also a factor, good healthy Koto blades are more expensive. My main resource is Shinshinto-shi from Markus Sesko. regards Oli

Thank you, didn't find any other examples, is it a rare kind of horimono?

Hi, have a new sword with a horimono with a bird. Can somebody tell me which mystical Japanese bird could it be? Or maybe the meaning? Thanks Oli

also a good source about soshu: https://www.nihonto-museum.com/swordsmith/masamune-no-jittetsu

an example of: https://www.aoijapan.com/katana-mumeitransmitted-as-yamato-shizuthe-37th-juyo-token/ https://eirakudo.shop/token/tachikatana/detail/206481 Interesting school, i like it.

Yamato Shizu? I saw one in Utrecht

Sold please move to archive

Once again a nice weekend in Utrecht and it was very nice to meet some people in live.

Good Books: Koto-shi from Junji Honma Shinto-shi from Markus Sesko Shinshinto-shi from Markus Sesko

We come on Saturday to the Expo, Friday we are still on the way.

seems there is no interest.

so few days left, should we make a appointment time in the Coffee Room?

From Markus Sesko Book: SADAHARU (貞晴), Keiō (慶応, 1865-1868), Settsu – “Naniwa-jū Mizuguchi Kenryūshi Sadaharu saku” (浪華住 水口剣龍子貞晴作), “Settsu Ikutama ni oite Kenryūshi Sadaharu kore o tsukuru” (於摂津生玉剣龍子 貞晴造之), “Naniwa-jū Kenryūshi Sadaharu saku” (浪花住剣龍子貞晴作), student of Gassan Sadayoshi (月山貞吉), his gō were Kenryūshi (剣龍子) and Kensaishi (剣斎子), we know blades from the Keiō to the Meiji era (明治, 1868-1912), mostly a magnificent sugata with a wide mihaba and an ō-kissaki, dense ko-itame or masame which tends to muji, suguha-hotsure, notare, gunome, he works in the style of his master Sadayoshi, he also added a koku´in seal in the form of the character “chū” (忠・忠) , chū-saku

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