Considering to buy my first katana - what do you guys think?

[huntodesu]

I came across one that I liked by Dewa Daijo Kunmichi. What do you guys think? 

Any comments/suggestions are warmly welcomed. Thanks.
What's a reasonable price for this piece?

Blade length (HA-CHOU)	66.6cm (2 shaku 2 sun)
Curvature (SORI)	1.3cm
Width at the hamachi (MOTO-HABA)	2.85cm
Moto Kasane Thickness at the Moto Kasane	0.57cm
Strong	0.67cm
Tip Width	1.86cm
Lead weight	0.43cm

 

 

[David Flynn]

Two things, do you like it and is it priced right?   If both are yes, then go for it.

[Rivkin]

Dewa Daijo Fujiwara Kunimichi is great. Like his work, and on occasion you can buy his suriage things which used to go as first rate Soshu pieces and now are discount mumei shinto which many will tell you one should not collect. I occasionally do, still alive, so its not that dangerous.

Here ze main issue is ze fotografier has placed the light source where it should not be: perpendicular to the blade on top of it - the worst position. I bet he does it to all his blades - some standard setting that is convenient to operate...

 

A few things you want in Kunimichi:

Really standing out zanguri hada. The images here are bad and we don't see anything good here, so assume its in the very least is not great.

Wonderful Soshu hamon in strong, sandy nie. Here we see... white hadori. Nothing else. There might be something, but its surely hadori suffocated.

 

So the images are definitely bad, polish is most likely bad, nothing really great is showing and we come to the final caveat - recently some shinsa teams slap Kunimichi on any Soshu suriage shinto piece. So you have great Kunimichi sitting next to "Kunimichi" with the same paper but 10% of quality... thank you judges.

 

Below is the blade I believe is Kunimichi. Ze papers say Naotsuna, but characteristic angled whirlpool hada... classic Kunimichi.