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A MINO WAKIZASHI
MUROMACHI/MOMOYAMA PERIOD (16TH CENTURY), SIGNED KANEMORI
Sugata: shinogi-zukuri with iori-mune and chu-kissaki: nagasa: 1 shaku, 7 sun, 6 bu (53.3 cm.); koshi-zori of 1.2 cm. Jihada: compacted itame. Hamon: gonome choji in noioi with some 'islands' and yo; above the hasaki, not unlike tobiyaki, is a flowing, parallel pattern resembling utsuri and reaching to the shinogi. Boshi: hakikake. Nakago: regular, tapering, ubu and with a dry, brown patina; yasurime: katte-sagari; nakagojiri: ha-agari kuri-jiri; mekugi-ana: one; katana-mei: Kanemori.
Wakizashi-goshirae: ishime saya; tsuka with shiiremono fuchi-kashira; iron tsuba carved with a figure of Shoki, unsigned, diameter 7 cm.
MUROMACHI/MOMOYAMA PERIOD (16TH CENTURY), SIGNED KANEMORI
Sugata: shinogi-zukuri with iori-mune and chu-kissaki: nagasa: 1 shaku, 7 sun, 6 bu (53.3 cm.); koshi-zori of 1.2 cm. Jihada: compacted itame. Hamon: gonome choji in noioi with some 'islands' and yo; above the hasaki, not unlike tobiyaki, is a flowing, parallel pattern resembling utsuri and reaching to the shinogi. Boshi: hakikake. Nakago: regular, tapering, ubu and with a dry, brown patina; yasurime: katte-sagari; nakagojiri: ha-agari kuri-jiri; mekugi-ana: one; katana-mei: Kanemori.
Wakizashi-goshirae: ishime saya; tsuka with shiiremono fuchi-kashira; iron tsuba carved with a figure of Shoki, unsigned, diameter 7 cm.