Sanshu Yoshida ju Fujiwara Kanefusa Saku - ARCHAIC Katana

[sisounek]

Hi Guys, thanks for all your help so far....... may be I am finally getting closer to own my first Japanese Steel!!!!!!

 

I found this one and kind of hypnotized me, it looks so special, and the store is not for me to check it out in person!

 

Could you please help me with few things:

 

1) what does it say on Shirasaya (sorry dont have better pic)

 

2) is Mei Gimei? to me looks pretty authentic Shinto sword

 

3) Has no papers and for $4000, I think it is a good deal or may be Steal :-) LoL ......or am I wrong again?

 

4) Hamon looks too good too me as well as a bit of too soft (worn off may be?)

 

Again I appreciate your useful comments

 

p.s. Sanshu Yoshida ju Fujiwara Kanefusa Saku (claimed to be signed Mei)

 

 

Mike

[pcfarrar]

One thing you can say is that its been acid polished. :?

 

Aside from that its a nice looking sword.

[Amon]

Hamon looks like the ones on Paul Chens swords and like

Peter just wrote so are they acid etched.

 

Regards

[loui]

I suggest going to this site and study all the info there, it is very useful and will help educate you:

 

http://www.ksky.ne.jp/~sumie99/

 

Informative topics:

 

http://www.ksky.ne.jp/~sumie99/information.html

 

And here is a brief about acid polishing:

 

http://www.ksky.ne.jp/~sumie99/acid%20polishing.html

 

Regards,

 

Louis

[sisounek]

Thanks for replies,

 

it looked too good to be true......

 

It's study time :-)

 

Mike

[pcfarrar]

My brother has a nice NTHK papered Tango no Kami Kanemichi katana for sale. You could try emailing him, I think he wants around $3000 for it.

 

It has a great hamon with loads of activity. His email is farrar.mark@googlemail.com

 

[Ted Tenold]

Mark,

 

Your enthusiasm is admirable as is your prudence in asking about things before rushing in. Let me also offer this to you:

 

http://www.nbthk-ab.org/articles/Gentle-Advice.pdf

 

Take your time, or as I was once told...."make haste, slowly". :lol:

[loui]

Good advice Ted.

 

Also, if you have a $4000.00 budget, then I suggest spending a sizable percentage of that on reference books. Most sword collectors have a great deal of money (in books) sitting on a shelf very near to their swords.

 

Louis