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Please forgive me. I just send an 80-page pm, but every word is important. :dropjaw:

Ok, it's more like 2 or 3, but it looks like 80 on my phone....

The paperwork is a sort of certificate of authenticity. It means the sword was examined by an authority in Japan, probably NBTHK, and determined to be a true Japanese sword, made with traditional...

A katana/wakizashi from Yoshihara runs about 35,000 USD for only the blade the last time I saw one for sale which is extremely rare, even for his older work when he was younger. Then again he's...

I once met a 9-fingered sword polisher in Tokyo. Years before he dropped a sword he'd just finished for a client & caught it before it landed point first on the concrete floor. When I asked in he...