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A SHINTO NAGAKUNI KATANA
EARLY EDO PERIOD (FIRST HALF 17TH CENTURY), SIGNED NAGAKUNI, ATTRIBUTED TO IYO NAGAKUNI
Sugata: with shinogi-zukuri, iori-mune and chu-kissaki; nagasa: 2 shaku, 2 sun, 9.7 bu (69.6 cm.); sori: koshi-zori of 0.9 cm.; fumbari: 0.9 cm. Jihada: mokume. Hamon: notare midare in nie and nioi. Boshi: indistinct. Nakago keitai: ubu, tapering and with a dry, brown patina; yasurime: sujikai; nakagojiri: ha-agari kuri-jiri; mekugi-ana: three (two being shinobi-ana); mei, katana-mei: Nagakuni.
Black Gunto saya; storage bag.
Accompanied by a Tokubetsu kicho ninteisho, no. 5505070, dated Showa 55 (1980), issued by the N.B.T.H.K., giving no attriubution beyond the mei itself.
EARLY EDO PERIOD (FIRST HALF 17TH CENTURY), SIGNED NAGAKUNI, ATTRIBUTED TO IYO NAGAKUNI
Sugata: with shinogi-zukuri, iori-mune and chu-kissaki; nagasa: 2 shaku, 2 sun, 9.7 bu (69.6 cm.); sori: koshi-zori of 0.9 cm.; fumbari: 0.9 cm. Jihada: mokume. Hamon: notare midare in nie and nioi. Boshi: indistinct. Nakago keitai: ubu, tapering and with a dry, brown patina; yasurime: sujikai; nakagojiri: ha-agari kuri-jiri; mekugi-ana: three (two being shinobi-ana); mei, katana-mei: Nagakuni.
Black Gunto saya; storage bag.
Accompanied by a Tokubetsu kicho ninteisho, no. 5505070, dated Showa 55 (1980), issued by the N.B.T.H.K., giving no attriubution beyond the mei itself.