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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;the blacksmith, post: 11815157, member: 20148&quot;]I have heard back and my translation thankfully is correct.&nbsp; There are evidently three smiths from the era listed who signed Katsutoshi, however,none of them signed Chikuzen (no) kuni, which as I said is a somewhat unusual province for the era. Maybe, he is simply unlisted, or possibly he moved and perhaps changed his signature.</p><p>Can you please possibly get a really close up of a section of the blade, just a small section will do, preferably against a black back ground.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pictures like those give me nightmares Komo. Interestingly, all the swords in your picture appear to be naval swords (Kai-Gunto) as opposed to army swords (Shin-Gunto) like that in the original post. I have a picture somewhere of hundreds of Japanese swords and daggers simply, and literally, being shovelled into a furnace!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie56" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie19" alt=":banghead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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