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they are a bit of a letdown to look at and handle...There was one at the japan exhibition a few years ago in London, some people got to go behind the scenes courtesy of the BKA with Keith Hazlewood. I think it was in the sword catalogue the British museum put out...
I, however, have handled one in Eguchi sensei's collection along with a Muramasa he had (sadly he died a few years ago). (you all may go green with envy at this point) He built a museum in Saga to house his collection, which I seem to remember he had spent about 15million quid on. I did offer to take them off his hands as why would anyone need 30+ swords??? Sadly he turned me down at the time.
One thing I do remember about his dojo was that he had a dustbin with a bagload of iaito in it for generally bashing about, two swords that had literally welded themselves together through being hit edge to edge, and far too many tsuba pinned to the walls...