Aoi Treasures

[BIG]

Gone..

 

Rai Kunimitsu 5000000 yen

 

Sanemori 19000000 yen

 

Sadatsugu 9500000

 

looks like one customer visited Tsuruta san. Congrats !!

 

Best

[Ken-Hawaii]

Same customer bought all three blades?

[Ray Singer]

Aoi are sometimes late in marking items on Hold or Sold. More than once I have inquired about an item which was already gone.

[Greg F]

Anyone see the Naotane katana for sale there today?

 

Greg

[Gakusee]

The 9.5m Naotane currently for sale? For a Shinshinto it looks like a great sword but also priced accordingly.....

[Hoshi]

Curious choice from Tsuruta to buy that Naotane. It's a beast sword and a great Naotane (1 cm thick kasane, long and wide, late late work in his best style), making it 'too expensive for juyo' 

 

I think it's a gambit driven by the recent Tokuju Naotane passage, which must have ruffled some feathers and caused a micro earthquake in the shinshinto world. Naotane is now up there, with Kyomaro. This means we're going to see some efforts to test the new market and this include Naotanes like this which are 'too expensive for juyo but cheap compared to Kyomaro who also has a Tokuju and this Naotane is just like that Tokuju so this is an investment' - that's a long long shot for its market. 

 

It's so far outside the Aoi business model (which is buy the cheapest barely juyo possible sub 40k and sell at 40ish K 'cheap juyo' while mixing in a gem or two once in a blue moon). 

 

Puzzling but interesting. Let's see what happens.