Wanted to buy - but have no money

[ShuShinKan]

Dear all!

I ask you a big favour, I know!

I would like to buy a "real" nihonto, but my budget is very, very limited. So I am recomended to save my money for something big....

(When you have read that far I am sure you read further on....)

My most exciting experience in the last 6 weeks has ben that I found a Tadamitsu blade where i did not know anything about it from the beginning. With help of Inernet and nice people from this forum I found out a lot about it.

Could somebody send me some pictures of affordable swords (preferably Koto) with mei and date and pretend it is for sale and you do not know anything about it?

I could go on and searching for information and bother this forum into hells kichen with my questions and learn a lot about nihonto.

Of course I'd like to use my favorite weapons first, Internet and the connosseurs book.

So within short range I might have learned a lot!

So please please, do me the favor!

Thanks for your postings, preferably by e-mail to save some server space for the forum.

Gunther

[Brian]

Gunther,

I have absolutely no idea what you are actually looking for here, and if it isn't an offer to purchase something, it doesn't belong in this section. Please clarify.

 

Brian

[Ford Hallam]

I think what Gunther is after is a set of images and details about a sword that he can then try to asses/study. As a way of teaching himself the pitfalls of buying online. Perhaps merely engaging in kantei is the same thing :D There are some on the forum here that might serve well.

[Brian]

Commercial Listings>>Wanted to Buy

May be the wrong place to put this then

Or can I sell you some pictures Gunther? :lol: Moving to GD.

There is no shortage of pics online to play with and evaluate. All you have to do is not read the description until you have made your guess. But trying to study from pics and online postings is already fraught with problems, and not ideal in any sense. Studying a site with good pics like Aoi is one place to start if you are going to go that route. Even if you know who the smith is initially...that doesn't stop you from reading the write up and reading up further.

 

Brian

[Link]

I'm with Gunther let me know where I can buy an "affordable" Koto sword and I'll take 2 ! :D

[ShuShinKan]

Hi,

ok to clearify my idea (that came actually up very fast and unreflected) was initiated by the following situation.

I have found an announcement for 2 katana and asked for photos.

So I tried to read the mei myself and came quite close, but the forum here helped me a lot with the query.

I soon learned that I need litterature because the vast web is not having too detailed information. So I bought a book Connosseurs Book of Japanese swords and started reading, mostly zooming on the details of the sword I wanted to buy. I found all the features matching but of course, investigating is raising more questions than I found answers, and that were questions I did not know that they can be asked. These I posed in the forum, with my own approach on explaining them. Of course, the mayor thing I know is that I do not know, but I felt that the attempt was good and lucky. So I try to break away my "romantic" idea of having a sword and see that a sword not is a sword and that there are buying opportunities that actually not are opportunities. It feels like I get shaped in a manner and I want to shape more regarding my knowledge on swords.

So, in a silly moment, I thought, I could go on with shaping my mind the same way I started and could get artificially into the same situation. But now I see that the thrill was that there was/is a real purchase-situation connected to the blade in question.

I am actually longing for having a real blade in my hands to be able to get it out and studying it whenever I feel for it but I feel (and read in this forum, too) that my financial limit is still far from a blade that I liked to have.

So hope you forgive my unreflected posting, I'd actually like to see it erased but that is beyond my rights on the forum.

I am interested in an affordable ($1300) koto blade, but I actually know I wont get one for the money.

 

Hope you can take a "sorry for the posting" from me.

[Brian]

:lol:

Sorry....just had to do it

 

Brian

[Link]

Hi,

ok to clearify my idea (that came actually up very fast and unreflected) was initiated by the following situation.

I have found an announcement for 2 katana and asked for photos.

So I tried to read the mei myself and came quite close, but the forum here helped me a lot with the query.

I soon learned that I need litterature because the vast web is not having too detailed information. So I bought a book Connosseurs Book of Japanese swords and started reading, mostly zooming on the details of the sword I wanted to buy. I found all the features matching but of course, investigating is raising more questions than I found answers, and that were questions I did not know that they can be asked. These I posed in the forum, with my own approach on explaining them. Of course, the mayor thing I know is that I do not know, but I felt that the attempt was good and lucky. So I try to break away my "romantic" idea of having a sword and see that a sword not is a sword and that there are buying opportunities that actually not are opportunities. It feels like I get shaped in a manner and I want to shape more regarding my knowledge on swords.

So, in a silly moment, I thought, I could go on with shaping my mind the same way I started and could get artificially into the same situation. But now I see that the thrill was that there was/is a real purchase-situation connected to the blade in question.

I am actually longing for having a real blade in my hands to be able to get it out and studying it whenever I feel for it but I feel (and read in this forum, too) that my financial limit is still far from a blade that I liked to have.

So hope you forgive my unreflected posting, I'd actually like to see it erased but that is beyond my rights on the forum.

I am interested in an affordable ($1300) koto blade, but I actually know I wont get one for the money.

 

Hope you can take a "sorry for the posting" from me.

 

No need for being sorry this is an open forum. Now you list your price range things are a bit clearer. Start searching ebay as that will probably be the only place where you'll come across a Koto blade for $1300. I was bidding on a "Koto" blade that went for under $1100 the blade was listed as being signed by Sukesada & dated 1551 the guy said the blade had flaws but for the price (if the sign. is legit) it looked OK. I asked the seller if he would take back the sword if the mei turned out to be a fake He ignored the question so I stopped bidding at $300.00

Good luck in your search

Larry

Brian that flap jack looks gimei to me

[pcfarrar]

I am actually longing for having a real blade in my hands to be able to get it out and studying it whenever I feel for it but I feel (and read in this forum, too) that my financial limit is still far from a blade that I liked to have.

 

Well $1300 should easily get a healthy shinto wakizashi in resonable polish and koshirae. Why limit yourself to koto period swords?

[ShuShinKan]

I like the bizen shape of the blades! Actually I express still quite faulty and unsharp.

Try to get it better with my correctness each day. I should say I am looking for a bizen blade, especially katana. But it feels I have not found the places where to look for them. Here it is the same, I would like to buy my first blade from a trusted source, as I still know too little about nihonto. I have fairly seen a nihonto "live".

 

I am still not done with "my" tadamitsu topic, so I will start a new thread right away. I feel there is a lot more to find out.