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A KOTO KATANA
PROBABLY MUROMACHI PERIOD (CIRCA LATE 15TH/EARLY 16TH CENTURY) AND MINO SEKI
Sugata: with shinogi-zukuri, iori-mune and ikubi-kissaki; nagasa: 2 shaku, 3 sun, 5 bu (71.2 cm.); sori of 0.9 cm.; horimono: bo-hi [not original] on both sides. Jihada: itame with nie deki. Hamon: kochoji midare in nie and nioi with areas resembling yahazuba and chabana midare; the nie becomes more pronounced in the upper half of the blade without becoming sunagashi. Boshi: indistinct. Nakago keitai: osuriage, slender, tapering and with a soft, brown patina; yasurime: katte-sagari; nakagojiri: kiri-jiri; mekugi-ana: three (plus one partial on the jiri); mei, mumei. Shirasaya.
PROBABLY MUROMACHI PERIOD (CIRCA LATE 15TH/EARLY 16TH CENTURY) AND MINO SEKI
Sugata: with shinogi-zukuri, iori-mune and ikubi-kissaki; nagasa: 2 shaku, 3 sun, 5 bu (71.2 cm.); sori of 0.9 cm.; horimono: bo-hi [not original] on both sides. Jihada: itame with nie deki. Hamon: kochoji midare in nie and nioi with areas resembling yahazuba and chabana midare; the nie becomes more pronounced in the upper half of the blade without becoming sunagashi. Boshi: indistinct. Nakago keitai: osuriage, slender, tapering and with a soft, brown patina; yasurime: katte-sagari; nakagojiri: kiri-jiri; mekugi-ana: three (plus one partial on the jiri); mei, mumei. Shirasaya.