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Is This Ebay Sword A Fake?

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hxv Mentor

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I do have a signed sword by the same smith with recent NBTHK papers, and have done an extensive mei study of this smith, using various sources such as other papered examples, Nihonto Koza, Fujishiro, and Markus's Shinto Kantei. It would appear that the mei on this sword is very suspect because it seems inconsistent with all examples I found, especially in regard to the placement of the mekugi ana.
 
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Hoanh

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Brian

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Not fake, and in a decent polish. I think it was a very good deal for someone. Even if gimei (and I don't think it is) and with the ware and slight tiredness...under $1k that will make a good study sword.

Being a wakizashi, there was less space on the nakago and not surprising the ana is where it is. Nothing much to panic about here even if it was mumei it would have been a fair price.

 

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Brian,

 

The link to aoijapan is for a wakizashi, and my mei comparison is for daito. Yasuhiro was very consistent in the placement of the mekugi ana.

 

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Hoanh

cabowen Grand Master

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I agree- he is very consistent with the placement of his mei. Also, the size of the kanji are also almost always quite large and occupy at least half or more of the width of the nakago. I would take this as gimei as well.

 

For the price, it is an otherwise attractive blade in polish, not such a bad deal...

cabowen Grand Master

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I didn't look all that closely but most of the flaws appeared to be in the mune. Those can often be fixed.

 

It surely isn't anything special but  it's a decent sword for someone on a limited budget. Hada and hamon are attractive.... :dunno:

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he reslls yahoo Japan stuff. you can tell when he (accidentally?) bought it because he will list it auction style. I saw him and Zengallery post the same thing and I asked whats the deal? and Zen said he was a reseller and that Zen also does but they have the item in-hand before listing.

 

pics 4 and 7 look like a chip of hagiri 

smicha6551 Contributor

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Hopefully not a dumb question, but is reselling yahoo Japan stuff a good or bad thing?  I haven't spent any time looking at yahoo Japan so I'm not sure about the quality of good there.  Again, I'm really only looking at his books and (less expensive) tsuba.

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Appreciate the info - I was sucessful with two fairly low cost tsuba, so unless they're totally junk...

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1003A-Rare-Japanese-Edo-Antique-TSUBA-of-Samurai-Katana-034-Grape-tree-034-/271748922298?autorefresh=true&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2047675.l2557&nma=true&si=llL%252BIVjK6Z9z930c%252B0s4Ppl65UM%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/281562791787?_trksid=p2059210.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

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