A MINO TACHI
SIGNED KANEUJI, EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY) Sugata [configuration]: honzukuri, slender with shallow even curve, ko-kissaki Kitae [forging pattern]: vivid itame Hamon [tempering pattern]: rounded gunome Boshi [tip]: Jizo type Nakago [tang]: suriage, two mekugi-ana, file marks are osujigai on the tachi-ura and sujigai with some kesho on the omote, two character signature on the tachi omote Habaki [collar]: single copper Nagasa [length of blade]: 66.5cm. Koshirae [mounting]: military mounting with Edo period mokko iron tsuba with agriculturalists and boy flautist in gilt copper inlay
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One of a number of smiths signing with the name Kaneuji after the 14th century smith Shizu Saburo Kaneuji who migrated from Yamato to Naoe in Mino province working there up to the 19th century.