Santa brought me a present - Mino Sword Encyclopedia (in Japanese)

[Mikaveli]

Just got the 美濃刀大鑑 (Mino-to taikan) for Christmas. 😀

 

It's a bit of a goldmine, lots of oshigata, pictures of blades, signs, family trees and historical documents (registrations of smiths and titles etc.).

 

What's nice is that all the mei and cursive Japanese is repeated in print, so it's really good practice for reading handwriting/ obscure/ corroded signatures.