I have been a member for a while, used your website for research and personal knowledge-rising on the subject of Samurai Swords. My family owns a number of antiques, some of them Japanese not all of them swords. I have published some pictures of a particular piece that has been in my family since before I was born. At the time I was interested in reading of the MEI, to make the long story short I got the answer something like “most defiantly fake” after that I left my research until recently.