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A KOTO CHIISA-KATANA
MUROMACHI PERIOD (16TH CENTURY)
Sugata: with shinogi-zukuri, iori-mune and chu-kissaki; nagasa: 1 shaku, 9 sun, 8 bu (60.1 cm.); sori: koshi-zori of 0.9 cm. Jihada: itame masame. Hamon: kogonome midare in nioi and ko-nie with extensive ashi. Boshi: hakikake. Nakago keitai: suriage and with a soft, brown patina; yasurime: katte-sagari; nakagojiri: kiri-jiri; mekugi-ana: one; mei, mumei. Shirasaya.
Accompanied by a kanteisho, no. 462, dated Showa 53 (1978), issued by Suiken Fukunaga, attributing the blade to Yamato Shikkake Norinaga.
MUROMACHI PERIOD (16TH CENTURY)
Sugata: with shinogi-zukuri, iori-mune and chu-kissaki; nagasa: 1 shaku, 9 sun, 8 bu (60.1 cm.); sori: koshi-zori of 0.9 cm. Jihada: itame masame. Hamon: kogonome midare in nioi and ko-nie with extensive ashi. Boshi: hakikake. Nakago keitai: suriage and with a soft, brown patina; yasurime: katte-sagari; nakagojiri: kiri-jiri; mekugi-ana: one; mei, mumei. Shirasaya.
Accompanied by a kanteisho, no. 462, dated Showa 53 (1978), issued by Suiken Fukunaga, attributing the blade to Yamato Shikkake Norinaga.