For the advanced Kantei participants, and for those who just love to read about all sorts of sword stuff, I am offering the first five years of Honma ‘Kunzan’ Junji’s Appraisal Diary (Kantō Hibi Shō), which was published in the Tōken Bijutsu magazine of the NBTHK between 1969 and 1983. The translations provide a very valuable insight into the mind of one of the greatest sword scholars of the 20th century, and unlike in “official” blade descriptions, Honma is occasionally quite frank about period attributions and what he thinks about a certain blade.
In about 480 (letter format, paperback) pages, Volume 1, which covers the years from 1969 to 1971, introduces roughly 400 blades, of which many are accompanied by oshigata drawings. Price for Volume 1 arrives at $129.00, which includes shipping.
Volume 2, which covers the years 1972 and 1973, introduces in about 370 pages roughy 300 blades and arrives at $99.00, again, with shipping included.
If you are interested in acquiring a copy or both, please reach out to me via markus.sesko@gmail.com. Thank you!
Markus Sesko 
VERY GOOD BOOKS A QUICK READ AND MANYSWORD DESCRIPTION DONE HIS WAY. CANNOT WAIT FOR THE NEXT VOLUMES. READ THE 1ST AND HALFWAY THROUGH THE 2ND!!!
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Markus you are truly a treasure to the Japanese sword collecting community. These books along with all of your articles are truly priceless. Thank you for your dedication and commitment to excellence my friend.
Best,
Joe Forcine
Thank you very much, Joe! Feedback like yours keeps me going, and I do have much more to come in the near future!
Sorry for the delay in payment my friend. I’ll be sending tomorrow first thing before noon.
Can you also send me an invoice for the new 10 years of postings that you have offered on your site in hardback?
I appreciate you sharing these with me earlier but I love collecting everything in print that you do.
Hope u and the family are doing well!
Respectfully,
Joe
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Thank you very much Joe, email sent!
Hello, my friend had a few hiccups with some of the storms that have been active down here this year. It has delayed me a tad. I am back in action now. Could you please resend Zelle for the Honma 5,6
When u have time? I’ll by the rest of everything u have next month.
Hope u and the family are well!
Joe
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Hi Joe, Zelle sent, thank you in advance! All good here, and working on Vol. 7.
Can u email the amount and I’ll just send to your account. Your request is not showing on my Zelle.
Sorry for the inconvenience .
Thank you my friend,
Joe
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