missed deal?

[Hermes]

I was watching this, i missed it at the Now it Now price, the seller added it late last night, did i miss a deal? I know the pictures of the blade are not very good.

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0355025338

[Marius]

Well, maybe... What I CAN see in the pics is a nice habaki. The rest remains uncertain as to the quality. I would not buy any sword having only these low-res pictures. But it is probably a decent sword, sold at its current market value

[hybridfiat]

I agree, a sword with a MOROHA-ZUKURI BLADE 27-3/4"just sold for $2300. I asked the seller for more pics which he promised but none eventuated so I let it go but it should have gone for more.

[Brian]

Those mounts are so common, I think I have seen 4 or 5 examples just here in SA. Whenever I see them, I think low class late Edo mounts.

As for the blade, that is anyone's guess. I wouldn't have taken a chance with just those pics. With a seller name like that, he must know that the blade is far more important than the mounts, which makes me wonder why the deliberately vague pics of the blade. At least those are the thoughts that would have gone through my mind before bidding.

 

Brian

[pcfarrar]

Those mounts are so common, I think I have seen 4 or 5 examples just here in SA. Whenever I see them, I think low class late Edo mounts.

 

Hi Brian,

 

Have you ever seen a katana in these style of mounts? I've seen plenty of tanto and the odd wakizashi but never a katana.

 

Suprisingly one appeared on Aoi Art today, what does the Matsudai mean?

 

http://www.aoi-art.com/fittings/koshirae/F08692.html

 

I wish they sold the kogai on kozuka seperately as its exactly what I need to complete my tanto. :?

 

Peter

[bdgrange]

Do not know if someone else mentioned this, but the design is of "horsetail" a type of wild fern.

The kozuka should be easy to find and perhaps the kogai.

regards

Bill de

[John A Stuart]

I wonder what matsudai means too. Not knowing the kanji in this case the romanji means 'forever', which makes no sense. John

[Hermes]

Thanks guys, i thought about my question right after i posted it and came up with some of the answers here, if you can not see the blade closeup, you can't know what your getting indeed.

 

I have learned a lot here, i would have not bought haft of the swords i have gotten over the last few years if i came here sooner, heck i didn't really know what Hada and Hataraki were.

[nagamaki - Franco]

With the Chinese stuff getting better and better, and a flood of these items reportedly hitting the market, bidding on anything that even appears a little sketchy is foolish. By sketchy I mean poor images, no return policy, similar items appearing time and again. Disappointment on the horizon! If it looks too good to be true, its probably Chinese.

[Guido]

Not knowing the kanji in this case the romanji means 'forever', which makes no sense.

On the Japanese site of Aoi Art it says 松代 - which I would have read "Matsushiro", a town name.

[Markus]

After a quick seach for "Matsushiro-goshirae", I´ve got the following link:

http://www.e-sword.jp/sale/0810_3012syousai.htm

 

E-sword states that this term refers to a koshirae made in the Matsushiro fief

of Shinano province during the Edo period. So the english term "Matsudai"

is IMHO just a wrong reading of the characters, because the "Daimyô no

Nihon-chizu" (大名の日本地図, "The Daimyô Japanese Map") gives clearly

"Matsushiro" as reading for this fief.

 

However, I haven´t heard this term before but the similaritis of the koshirae

are striking so I think that´s the answer.

[John A Stuart]

A clerical error. How many wars were started such? Matsuhiro as a fief or town is much more sensible. Thanks, I should check the Nihongo side for these oddities. John

[Henry Wilson]

A clerical error. How many wars were started such?

 

I don't know. I hope none.