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• Authentic Antique Japanese Signed Wakizashi Sword

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  Price:

  $ 890.00

  Sale Price:

  $ 580.00

  Gem Id:

  11995

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  Notes:

  This is an early edo period Ubu signed Nakago wakizashi. I will have to break out my Hawley's book on mei and figure it out as I lost my notes on this blade. I know I got it some 10 to 12 years ago in very rough condition from Japan. It was a chipped rusted bare blade stuck in a saya that actually fits... It was Shitaji Togi foundation polished by me with one pass of hazuya stone to bring out hamon. It has a wild choji style hamon and itame hada all of which will come out with more hazuya and jizuya fingerstone work. No worries you will not mess anything up with those stones. Lines corrected, chips and rust removed with minimal steel loss as I am a minimalist.. Cosmetic yokote line as there was no geometrical yokote when I got it and I keep them like they were when I got them. Yes true minimalist and I guess it comes from gem cutting, you take no more than you have to. Basic polish is 50 dollars an inch and that is the cheapest I have seen and I know why I have over 5 grand in stones, not to mention making hardrock tsuka, habaki, and period furniture, so no I do not make any money on this; I just love to polish and bring them back to functional beauty, so enjoy the fruits of my labors. lol The blade, early edo, ubu nakago, you can look up the smith if you wish the nihonto board has a ton of people that get into the meis, I get into the construction.. It is 48.5 cm / 19 1/8 inch long nagasa or cutting edge, 1.4 cm sori, 0.65 cm thichness at mune machi, 2.7 cm wide at mune machi, choji-madre hamon style itame hada, all of which will come out in more detail with 3 more passes of hazuya and about 3 passes with jizya fingerstones. cosmetic yokote, no forging flaws, period iron fuchi and kashi from my collection of furniture, the tsuba is unreal with gold and copper zogan inlay in iron, the tsuba alone is a 200 dollar tsuba but it fit.. I make the tsuka out of hard rock maple, yes a beast to do but almost every tsuke I have had to remove was cracked and broken under the ito, but they use ho wood which is like bass wood or our poplar, so I decided all that energy is in the handle when we use it so beef it up with a true tough hardwood... This is the original saya or one that came with it, habaki is copper, I added a sterling silver collar on the saya for strength, saya was taken apart and cleaned and re-glued. I do every one of these blades like I was going to keep them to USE if needed. So I am a functional polisher... This will be a very awesome blade when the new owner finishes it and will be a useful tool to look at or use if necessary. Whomever buys any of my blades with no menuki, I will look in my inventory for a pair, just ask...

  Origin:

  Japan

  Size:

  48.5 cm or 19 1/8 inch nagasa cutting edge

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