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A LATE KOTO KATANA
PROBABLY LATE MUROMACHI PERIOD (16TH CENTURY), SIGNED NORI(?)HIRO
Sugata: with shinogi-zukuri, iori-mune and chu-kissaki; nagasa: 2 shaku, 9 bu (63.3 cm.); sori: torii-zori of 1.6 cm. Jihada: oitame mokume. hamon: irregular togari kogonome in nioi and good nie with scattered sunagashi becoming more convoluted in the monouchi, especially on the ura. Boshi: strongly contorted sunagashi becoming hakikake. Nakago keitai: nakagosakikiri (shaved from below), machi-okuri and with a dry, brown patina; yasurime: katte-sagari; nakagojiri: kuri-jiri; mekugi-ana: two (one plugged); mei, katana-mei, indistinctly signed, Nori(?)hiro.
Black saya.
PROBABLY LATE MUROMACHI PERIOD (16TH CENTURY), SIGNED NORI(?)HIRO
Sugata: with shinogi-zukuri, iori-mune and chu-kissaki; nagasa: 2 shaku, 9 bu (63.3 cm.); sori: torii-zori of 1.6 cm. Jihada: oitame mokume. hamon: irregular togari kogonome in nioi and good nie with scattered sunagashi becoming more convoluted in the monouchi, especially on the ura. Boshi: strongly contorted sunagashi becoming hakikake. Nakago keitai: nakagosakikiri (shaved from below), machi-okuri and with a dry, brown patina; yasurime: katte-sagari; nakagojiri: kuri-jiri; mekugi-ana: two (one plugged); mei, katana-mei, indistinctly signed, Nori(?)hiro.
Black saya.