SIGNED YAMASHIRO (NO) KAMI FUJIWARA KANESHIGE, EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)

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A MUSASHI KATANA
SIGNED YAMASHIRO (NO) KAMI FUJIWARA KANESHIGE, EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
Sugata [configuration]: slender honzukuri, maru-mune, gentle fumbari, even curve, ko-kissaki
Kitae [forging pattern]: fine ko-itame with rich even small ji-nie
Hamon [tempering pattern]: suguha with variation, sujigai-ba, ko-gunome with ashi and yo, nie with ara-nie
Boshi [tip]: ko-maru
Nakago [tang]: ubu, three mekugi-ana including a shinobi-ko, katte-sagari file marks, tachi-mei, shallow kurijiri
Habaki [collar]: single silver-clad copper
Nagasa [length of blade]: 68.3cm.
Koshirae [mounting]: Showa gunto koshirae with red sword knot, name Kitani on silver tablet on the kabuto-gane, in a cotton bag and with a leather hilt cover

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Yamashiro no kami Fujiwara Kuneshige, otherwise styled by his Buddhist name Yamashiro Nyudo Kazutora, was a pupil of Musashi daijo Yasukuni working in Edo in the 1760's-70's. His son inherited the title Yamashiro no kami.

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