AN ECHIZEN SHIMOSAKA WAKIZASHI

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AN ECHIZEN SHIMOSAKA WAKIZASHI
EARLY EDO PERIOD (DATED 1648), SIGNED ECHIZEN (NO) JU/SAGAMI (NO) KIMI FUJIWARA KUNITSUNA

Sugata: with shinogi-zukuri, iori-mune and chu-kissaki; nagasa: 1 shaku, 6 sun, 8 bu (50.8 cm.); sori: torii-zori of 1.8 cm.; fumbari: 0.9 cm. Jihada: itame. Hamon: medium suguba in nie and nioi. Boshi: chu-maru. Nakago keitai: wide, tapering and with a moist, brown patina; yasurime: sujikai; nakagojiri: kuri-jiri; mekugi-ana: one; mei, katana-mei: Sagami (no) Kami Fujiwara Kunitsuna; ura: Echizen (no) ju Shoho 5-nen 10-gatsu hi [Shoho 5 (1648)].
Shirasaya; storage bag.

Accompanied by a Tokubetsu kicho ninteisho, no. 5505000, dated Showa 55 (1980), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.