Need help to ID Samurai(?) sword

[Amuk Murugul]

Originally Posted by Ferguson

I am not an expert in Japanese or any other types of swords, but have learned a bit about buying ....

Hello Steve,

Point taken, thank you very much.
I was just hoping that someone here would recognise it ( from the brief description) to be something other than a samurai sword ( as I also have never seen a Japanese sword like it before). Then I could do research on the 'identified' sword and see whether I wanted it.
I have had several good buys, where the items were misrepresenred/misadvertised as something other than what they really were.
(You know the feeling, finding that pot-of-gold which everybody else missed)