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I think I will sign up and post some more pictures on that message board to see what reactions it brings. I would love to see if it is authentic and what kind of history it holds. You've been most helpful and hopefully we can continue to communicate.If you are just beginning to become interested in this, I recommend the following book from John Yumoto. Its quite old and basic, but still useful I think.
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For something a bit more in-depth, I recommend:
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For something a bit more immediately accessible I suggest joining the Nihonto Message Board. The members there are probably the brightest non-native Japanese sword enthusiasts around.
A matching signature is a good thing, but the sword enthusiasts will want to make sure that the actual sword resembles what a Zenshiro Ippo sword ought to look like. But I would also say that while we see a lot of crap pieces getting posted to the forum, yours doesn't give me that knee-jerk "junk" reaction. Would like to see more - or if there are any documents that came with the sword it would be interesting to see those too.