Is it real or fake sword questionable tsuba looks really nice!

[Masamune]

Comments?

[Ganko]

Avoid it like the plague, looks like a Chinese knock-off to me.

[Greg F]

Definitely not Japanese made.

 

Greg

[Blazeaglory]

Thing looks scary as f*ck!

 

Some kind of genie in a bottle or Japanese ghost story?

[16k]

Fake blade at least.

[Ken-Hawaii]

Doesn't look like they even tried to follow Japanese standards.

[raaay]

All fake IMHO

[Masamune]

What about the tsuba? It’s signed first picture??

[peterd]

Need better pictures or i will stick with first impression fake.

The  mei seems to be somthing, Hisa Saku. The top part  also appears to stray from under the seppa

[Masamune]

The fuchi & kashira are real also signed I thought the tsuba may be real.

[Bruce Pennington]

Here's a better picture of the tsuba mei

[Brian]

Mei is irrelevant, if the tsuba is junk and clearly not Japanese. That is just not a theme or style anyone Japanese would ever do. It is comically bad.
Forget the signature.

[peterd]

Maybe trying to look like this.

[uwe]

Wow...... “暦応” (Ryakuō era, third year) ....some doubts are appropriate here, I guess...   
 

Sorry   

[peterd]

All fake. Chinese sword. Chinese copy tsuba.

[raaay]

sorry,   I do not want to be rude , but this is getting like          it is all  a Chinese fake sword.

[Masamune]

Wow that tsuba is awsome!

[Stephen]

Can we kill this or are newbies learning from it.

[uwe]

sorry,   I do not want to be rude , but this is getting like          it is all  a Chinese fake sword.

 

That’s crystal clear Ray!!!

I merely wanted to express my astonishment, that somebody made the effort, to put a (more or less well made) inscription on this bad fake, that in fact bears a meaning. Ridiculous in this case, but readable......

 

No more and no less

[Masamune]

Can we kill this or are newbies learning from it.

[Masamune]

No we can’t kill it it’s all about study! It’s a study for the rest of your life.

[Vermithrax16]

This tsuba is an homage to the WWE's George "The Animal" Steele

[Stephen]

your life Mark not mine

[raynor]

Drop it like it's hot.

 

As another newbie - don't buy a sword until you have first seen the real thing live first. Once you have looked at a real one for more then two blinks and paid attention you are able to rule out the vast majority of fakes out there, quality does not lie.

[Blazeaglory]

This tsuba is an homage to the WWE's George "The Animal" Steele

Haha, good eye! It's totally him!

 

Just needs to eat a turn buckle and it's complete!

[peterd]

Just before i crawl back in my bottle.

Demons. Goki and Zenki.

[Brian]

A VERY different, and masterfully done, depiction of them compared to the original comical and un-Japanese one above.

[Nobody]

Just before i crawl back in my bottle.

Demons. Goki and Zenki.

 

 

They are a Rokuro-kubi (轆轤首) with a sake bottle and a Kappa (河童) with a cucumber.

 

Ref. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rokurokubi

Ref. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappa_(folklore)

[peterd]

Sorry, that is what it said in the auction catalogue.