Outdoor Pics Of Mino Wakizashi

[Blazeaglory]

Here's some more outdoor pics of another Wakizashi I have. It's O-suriage and in pretty decent shape. Looks to be Mino/Kanemoto

 

Once again the majority of pics are too big to post. So here's a link to Flickr

 

https://flic.kr/s/aHsmuCeBtR

[TETSUGENDO]

More great shots, now it's time to experiment with artificial light and reflection/refraction, etc.

 

Cheers,

   -S-

[Jean]

And time to learn to resize pictures to post them directly on the Board...

[Vermithrax16]

Nice shots Dwain 

 

If you don't want to go the flicker route, easy to re-size as Jean suggests.

[John A Stuart]

So, originally daito shortened to shoto? John

[Blazeaglory]

And time to learn to resize pictures to post them directly on the Board...

 

 

Yeah yeah yeah Im working on it!

[Blazeaglory]

So, originally daito shortened to shoto? John

 

I think so. Its got a nagasa of 18" roughly

 

Ive attached pics of the Sori and Nakago. From there I try to imagine what it looked like whole and try to narrow down an era. Ive come up with Mid to Late Muromachi. Also, Its got a high Shinogi, so its very thin but sharp as Satan toe nail. So maybe that had something to do with breaking?

 

What I like is it has 2 Mekugi Ana that look as if they were made at the same time. So was this blade broken during the warring years? ANd then remade for more wars? Are usually two holes a sign of a war time blade? I would like to think so anyways :-)