A friend in London was showing me a wakizashi with the Mei written in reverse image. (Kane-something.) I tried running a search here on the NMB but came up blank. The subject is not mentioned in my single work of reference here in London, John Yumoto's The Samurai Sword.   How common was this practice, and do the members have a) other examples, b) a more accurate word to describe it. In one book I found the expression hidari-kiki or left-handed, but was the signature written this way to indica