Jacques
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Censors, if you can't be smart, at least try to be fair
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Typical of someone who doesn't understand what knowledge is.
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Yeah, but I don't collect things, I think it's a little silly. What interests me is knowledge. Yeah, I know I'm different, but I'm ok with that.
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The Japanese can do whatever they want; what interests me is art, not militaria (I might as well collect spoons).
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Star stamped only and it's not a rule. https://www.jssus.org/nkp/japanese_sword_laws.html
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That's your opinion, and IS IT shared by others (How many people do you know who are interested in nihonto?).
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NTHK NPO = not reliable
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Wiki .... Wiki is reliable on scientific subjects but about Nihonto it's far for being the case (have a look at references).
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Mitsu-mune My mistake i would say iori-mune.
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You still have everything to learn. Mitsu mune = not a yoroi-doshi
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Here a true yoroi-doshi, kasane = 1cm
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Gimei. This one is tokuho The great thing about Mizuta Kunishige swords is that the signatures look very similar regardless of the generation; however, it's relatively difficult to tell which generation a sword belongs to
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It was a tachi before being suriage but NBTHK always name suriage mumei swords katana.
