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A SHINSHINTO ECHIGO KATANA
LATE EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1830), SIGNED HOKUETSU (NO) JU KANEMUNE
Sugata: with shinogi-zukuri, iori-mune and chu-kissaki; nagasa: 2 shaku, 2 sun, 4 bu (68.0 cm.); sori: koshi-zori of 1.0 cm. Jihada: itame with scattered ji-nie. Hamon: gonome midare. Boshi: indistinct. Nakago keitai: regular, ubu and with a dry, brown patina; yasurime: kiri-yasuri; nakagojiri: ha-agari kuri-jiri; mekugi-ana: two; mei, katana-mei: Hokuetsu (no) ju Kanemune. Shirasaya; storage bag.
Accompanied by a Futsu kicho ninteisho, no. 5505006, dated Shgowa 55 (1980), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.
LATE EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1830), SIGNED HOKUETSU (NO) JU KANEMUNE
Sugata: with shinogi-zukuri, iori-mune and chu-kissaki; nagasa: 2 shaku, 2 sun, 4 bu (68.0 cm.); sori: koshi-zori of 1.0 cm. Jihada: itame with scattered ji-nie. Hamon: gonome midare. Boshi: indistinct. Nakago keitai: regular, ubu and with a dry, brown patina; yasurime: kiri-yasuri; nakagojiri: ha-agari kuri-jiri; mekugi-ana: two; mei, katana-mei: Hokuetsu (no) ju Kanemune. Shirasaya; storage bag.
Accompanied by a Futsu kicho ninteisho, no. 5505006, dated Shgowa 55 (1980), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.