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There is no centralized antique market like Panjiayuan in Japan.

Generally, antique shops are scattered in busy commercial streets or quiet alleys.

However, there are still two places in Hanoi where you can focus on finding treasures.

The first is Laosatsudori Antique Street, located near Nishitenma 4-chome, Kita-ku, Osaka, with a length of about 1 kilometer.

Most of the items sold in this kind of antique shop are relatively simple. For example, the shop above is a shop that specializes in swords. There are few other things in it except weapons and armor.

The Japanese swords are very famous. Ouyang Xiu once wrote a poem praising its sharp edge:

The Kun-Yi road is no longer accessible, and who can be poor if they cut the jade passed down from generation to generation?

The second location is the Tennoji Antique Market, which is held on the 21st and 22nd of every month. It is the largest antique trading market in Osaka City.

Different from the street stalls in our country that specialize in buying antiques with investment value, many of the "antiques" in this kind of street stalls are just old items recycled from the homes of ordinary Japanese residents.

It has no ability to appreciate in value and the price is not high, but it is also full of a warm and nostalgic atmosphere of life.

However, discernment is also very important here. Wang Xuehong introduced the simple situation here to Ye Yuan.

When asked about Wang Xuehong’s purpose of coming here this time, Wang Xuehong sighed and said:

"This time I am here to participate in an auction two days later. In this auction, there will be several cultural relics of our country being auctioned. We players are hoping to take some of them back."

Wang Xuehong was a bit speechless when he said this. Although Ye Yuan said he didn't understand the antique business, he still knew something about the loss of cultural relics.

China is a country with a long history. After thousands of years of dynasty changes, many antiques and cultural relics have been lost overseas due to wars, private sales and other reasons.

Over the years, some patriotic businessmen have tried their best to return many lost antiques to the motherland through overseas purchases, auctions, etc., but a large part of the antiques are still on display in exhibition halls in various countries.

It seems that this time Wang Xuehong and the others saw some antiques and planned to buy them and take them back home.

As they walked, the two of them came to a shop selling ancient knives. Wang Xuehong was familiar with every shop here and took Ye Yuan inside to admire the various antique knives in the shop.

While admiring the knives in the shop, Wang Xuehong was also very pleased and talked about the whereabouts of a famous Japanese knife.

During the Anti-Japanese War, a considerable number of Japanese antiques were left in China. To be precise, they should have been captured by the Chinese army.

The most representative one is a famous antique sword called "Tora Tetsu".

It was captured by the founding general Han Liancheng from the Japanese Lieutenant General Oga Keijiro in the South Island. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he donated it to the military museum for collection.

This sword was forged in the ninth year of Kuanwen (1632) and has a history of nearly four hundred years.

Its forger is also famous, the famous swordsman Soya Komasa in the Edo period. Therefore, this sword was rated as "the best new sword" by the Japanese sword community.

Friends who have watched One Piece will know that Japanese swords are divided into several levels.

They are: karma, good karma, great karma, and the supreme great karma. Among them, there are only twelve handfuls of the highest-level supreme karma.

The "First Generation Ghost" and "Second Generation Ghost" that Soda coveted are both the greatest karma.

And this "Tora Toru" probably corresponds to the "Second Generation Ghost Toru" in One Piece, which shows how precious this sword is.

Recently, Japanese scholars discovered through investigation that the "Tiger Che" preserved in the Japanese country was a fake.

The real "Tiger Che" is collected in the China Military Museum.

It can be said that the Japanese people attach great importance to their swords. Under normal circumstances, if the sword is lost, they will commit suicide.

After Keijiro Goga was disarmed, he committed suicide soon after.

It may be that they are unwilling to admit that their national treasure appears in China as a trophy.

I felt this was a shame, so I used a fake knife to comfort myself. This was really a funny thing.

Wang Xuehong felt happy when he talked about this.

The two of them were talking while looking at the various knives in the store. Ye Yuan deliberately used his senses to feel these knives.

But just when Ye Yuan sensed that he touched an old-looking wakizashi, he discovered the secret in the knife.

Japanese warriors generally had two swords, a long sword and a short sword. The long sword was called a datō, while the short sword was called wakizashi.

The wakizashi that Ye Yuan saw was placed in a very inconspicuous corner. Ye Yuan could not tell the age of this wakizashi, but judging from the age and style of the blade, it should not be from recent years.

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These are not what Ye Yuan cares about, Ye Yuan is interested in this knife.

It was because Ye Yuan could clearly see in his perception that the knife was hollow, with a thin piece of animal skin rolled into the blade.

Because it was curled, Ye Yuan had no idea what was recorded on the animal skin.

The owner of the knife shop is an elderly, skinny old man, and he was very happy to see Ye Yuan interested in this knife.

After all, this knife has been in my shop for many years, and few people have taken a fancy to it.

The value of an ancient sword mainly depends on whether the wearer is famous or who made it.

This knife was accidentally purchased at a garage sale when he first entered the industry. The purchase price at that time was relatively high, and for this reason, the knife was never sold.

The main reason is that this knife has no origin at all, and judging from the style of the knife, it is only a hundred years away from modern times.

As for the swords of this era, they were not worn by celebrities. It can be said that there were many in Japan.

Such a knife is difficult to sell in the Japanese mainland, so it is easy to deceive foreigners who come to visit.

The shop owner warmly received Ye Yuan. Since he often receives foreign tourists, there is no problem in speaking simple English.

Ye Yuan asked about the price, and the old man gave a price of 1.8 million Japanese coins, which is equivalent to a little more than 100,000 Chinese coins.

Wang Xuehong reminded Ye Yuandao:

"Xiao Yuan, a knife like this has no value. The price is too high."

Ye Yuan also knew that this shop owner must think that he is the kind of tourist who is stupid and has a lot of money.

"500,000"

Ye Yuan gave his own price.

Of course the old man disagreed, and in the end he had to settle on 1 million, which could not be any less.

Wang Xuehong pulled Ye Yuan.

"Xiao Yuan, there are a lot of knives like this on this street. They are just souvenirs, not even antiques."

Wang Xuehong still reminded Ye Yuan, he thought Ye Yuan was wasting money.

Ye Yuan was also hesitating whether to buy the knife or not. After all, he didn't know exactly what the leather thing inside was.

At the moment when Ye Yuan was hesitating, the shop owner also saw that Ye Yuan was not easy to fool. If he let this guy go, it was hard to say whether the knife would be sold in the future.

In the end, the shop owner happily agreed to Ye Yuan's price.

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