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Beautiful sword, thanks for sharing that one Daniel. Likewise, ours are the only two Akitaka I have seen. A very talented smith. The sarute in mine is very unusual. It is triangular in shape, with wire coiled around the outside. It appears to be original, but I've never seen one like this before.

 

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This is the best one I've been able to look at. Almost managed to slice my arms open with it.  Unfortunately we didn't get to take super detailed pictures. The research we got with it was that it was made by Naminohira Yasu, who made swords from 1394 to 1428.  While the Koshirae definiteley showed some wear, the blade was nicely polished, though I don't know if it was polished more recently than WWII.  This is one of the two swords that really got me interested in learning more than about just Gunto.

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Is it just me or do Kai Gunto tend to have rather poor quality samegawa on the tsuka no matter the quality of the blade? I wonder because it is almost exclusively dyed black they tended to use lower quality samegawa, rather than wasting the good stuff, in comparison to an equally quality Shin Gunto using traditional polished and stained same.

 

It would be interesting to see how the Samegawa changes on higher quality swords throughout the war

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Wow Neil. Do you think it's man-made? Seems too geometrical to be natural, yet, the dots seem the same as those around them and the dots around them seem to be undisturbed. In both, the dots spiral in toward the center dot.

 

On another note, I always thought this large dotted skin was eel. I have one that I was told was shark, and the way to tell, they said, was shark has diamond-like shape to the dots. But this is something I know nothing about. (hope I don't side-track your point!).

 

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John, pictured are the tsukas of two Minatogawa swords. I guess the Minatogawas were pretty high class at the time. The one on the left with large nodules was an early war example, the one on the right later in the war. There is certainly a difference in quality. 

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