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A LATE KOTO STYLE KATANA
EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)
Sugata: shinogi-zukuri with iori-mune and chu-kissaki; nagasa: 2 shaku, 2 sun (66.8 cm.); torii-zori of 1.9 cm.; horimono: ura: futatsujibi above ken with tsume; omote: futatsujibi with tsume. Jihada: very tightly-compacted itame. Hamon: wide suguba with scattered ashi and yo. Boshi: kaen. Nakago: thick, wide, straight and slightly angled up, two mune-machi, and with a moist, brown patina; yasurime: katte-sagari; nakagojiri: kuri-jiri; mekugi-ana: three'; katana-mei: gimei, Nobukuni. Walking stick mounts in the shape of a length of bamboo and decorated in fundame hiramaki-e with spiders and a millipede.
EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)
Sugata: shinogi-zukuri with iori-mune and chu-kissaki; nagasa: 2 shaku, 2 sun (66.8 cm.); torii-zori of 1.9 cm.; horimono: ura: futatsujibi above ken with tsume; omote: futatsujibi with tsume. Jihada: very tightly-compacted itame. Hamon: wide suguba with scattered ashi and yo. Boshi: kaen. Nakago: thick, wide, straight and slightly angled up, two mune-machi, and with a moist, brown patina; yasurime: katte-sagari; nakagojiri: kuri-jiri; mekugi-ana: three'; katana-mei: gimei, Nobukuni. Walking stick mounts in the shape of a length of bamboo and decorated in fundame hiramaki-e with spiders and a millipede.