My latest "knife" purchase

[gic]

If one takes knife in the sense of sharp and shiny and cuts things. Got it at auction for less than what a good custom knife would be ($1,000)

"A shin-shinto katana, Edo period (1615-1868), 18th-19th century
Honzukuri, iorimune, chu-gissaki toriizori forged in ko-itame hada and with a choji midare tempered edge changing to gunome midare towards the upper half of the blade and with copious nie, ara-nie ashi, saka-ashi, yo, sunagashi, and chikei, the boshi ko-maru, the tang ubu with one hole and kessho file marks, with a one-piece silver-foil habaki, 25 1/4in (65.1cm) long; in a shirasaya (wood storage scabbard)"

 

[tripleq]

That looks nice. Katanas seem to be a world that goes very deep. Can you recommend any good resources to learn about them?

 

[TimoNieminen]

To quote Jussi Ekholm from http://myarmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=31793

For beginners

Samurai - Clive Sinclaire
The Japanese Sword - Kanzan Sato
The Art of the Japanese Sword - Yoshindo Yoshihara, Leon & Hiroko Kapp
Facts and Fundamentals of Japanese Swords - Nobuo Nakahara
Arms and Armour of the Samurai - Ian Bottomley & A.P. Hopson

For advanced readers

Kantei Zenshu ( 2 volumes ) - Markus Sesko
Yamanaka Newsletters ( 4 volumes ) - Albert Yamanaka
The Connoisseurs Book of Japanese Swords - Kokan Nagayama
Nihonto Koza ( 5 volumes) - Kanzan Sato, Honma Junji
Zusetsu Nihonto Yogo Jiten - Kotoken Kajihara

His beginner's list is good. Connoisseur's Book in the advanced list is good. I don't know the others, but what I've read by Markus Sesko (see https://markussesko.com/books/ for more) and Kanzan Sato have been good, so I think his advanced list is good too.

 

[tripleq]

Great. Thanks so much for the info!

 

[xantiema]

That looks very interesting - any high res images you can upload? It is hard to appreciate the katana from the current one.

 

[StonedEdge]

That's one large slicer you got there!

 

[milkbaby]

Congrats, are you going to make all new fittings for it? It would be a cool project...

This makes me think of John Belushi's samurai deli. :knife: