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Aoe-blade at Yahoo Auction

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Peter:

 

Yahoo Japan Auctions are similar to ebay. Many auctions on Yahoo Japan are as this one is "海外発送

対応しません " meaning that they will not ship overseas. With many of these auctions, you may register and bid but remember that in the case of this sword (as it is Juyo Bijutsu Hin) it is for most intents and purposes illegal to remove it from the country of Japan. It is legal for anyone to own just not to remove from the country.

 

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Chris:

 

I know of one sword (can’t remember if it is Jyu-bi or Jyu-bun) that resides outside of Japan but am not sure if it departed Japan with the approval of the Monbusho or not. Of course, swords of this level can leave Japan for exhibition or auction but even the auction houses site that the items can be viewed in New York, custody must be taken in Japan. Do you know of any swords that were permitted exit based on the fact that they were pre-war certificates?

 

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I am not sure if pre-war certified swords are forbidden from export from Japan. I know of a few in the US that were brought here right after the war.

 

Frankly, I have serious doubts about this sword being ko-aoe. The hamon is rather devoid of activity, unlike most Aoe blades I have seen. If it really is what is claimed, I would expect to see the price reach 6 figures without any difficulty, and I'm talking US$, not yen...

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Chris:

 

Yeah, it should do six figures based on the paper along but I wouldn’t expect any pre-2007 Kurokawa prices either. These photos are pretty horrible; they should have been taken professionally. I understand that chirimen-hada is difficult to photograph but other than the 1cm hataraki it is difficult to see what might be lying in and around the nioi-guchi. One overall sugata photo would be helpful in determining if this is really ko-aoe or not. I would expect to see a slightly deeper sori and smaller kissaki but of course it is suriage. One thing the sword seems to have on its side is health, only wish the photos displayed the finer details. As we know, seeing (not looking at) swords is very much a first-hand experience.

 

Robert

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My issue is with the nioi-guchi....It looks nearly featureless. There is nothing going on like one would expect with Aoe...While hard to see, the hada looks featureless as well.

 

These types of papers are easily faked or swords can be doctored to match them.

 

 

Auction sword:

 

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Juto Ko=Aoe:

 

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Stephen Grand Master

Stephen

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scrolled down and seen this ..sold?

 

商品説明を読む

現在の価格

： 3,703,000 円

 

残り時間 ： 終了 （詳細な残り時間）

入札件数 ： 0 （入札履歴）

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not the first time something gets pulled from Yahoo Auctions only to reappear a few days later - also when they had a private offline bid, they can stop and cancel the auction as well - although some doubts were expressed on this forum, a lot of people were willing to gamble a lot of money on this one ;)

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