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AN INABA KANEZAKI KATANA
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1665), SIGNED INABA [NO] KUNI [NO] JU FUJIWARA KANEZAKI, ATTRIBUTED TO 3RD GENERATION
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and medium point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 2 shaku, 2 sun, 9 bu (69.5cm.); curvature (sori): koshi-zori of 1.5cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 1.0cm.
Forging pattern (jihada): ko-itame masame.
Tempering pattern (hamon): medium suguba in ko-nie.
Point (boshi): small and rounded (ko-maru).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): tapering, unshortened (ubu) and with a lustrous silvery-brown patina; file marks (yasurime): takanoha; end (nakagojiri): ha-agari kurijiri; holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (katanamei): Inaba [no] Kuni [no] ju Fujiwara Kanezaki.
Shirasaya.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 5503865, dated Showa 55 (1980).
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1665), SIGNED INABA [NO] KUNI [NO] JU FUJIWARA KANEZAKI, ATTRIBUTED TO 3RD GENERATION
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and medium point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 2 shaku, 2 sun, 9 bu (69.5cm.); curvature (sori): koshi-zori of 1.5cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 1.0cm.
Forging pattern (jihada): ko-itame masame.
Tempering pattern (hamon): medium suguba in ko-nie.
Point (boshi): small and rounded (ko-maru).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): tapering, unshortened (ubu) and with a lustrous silvery-brown patina; file marks (yasurime): takanoha; end (nakagojiri): ha-agari kurijiri; holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (katanamei): Inaba [no] Kuni [no] ju Fujiwara Kanezaki.
Shirasaya.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 5503865, dated Showa 55 (1980).