Help Identifying A Wakizashi

[nickm]

Recently purchased this for entirely too cheap to be much of anything but impressed with the grain and general workmanship anyway. Wondering if it might be recent o suriage and is there any significance to the notches in the tang?

 

As always any help identifying would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much guys

[nagamaki - Franco]

Your kantei?

[nickm]

Without being horribly embarassed I couldn't say much. Entirely too new with this.. for my hopes anyway O Suriage

[nickm]

Attempt at a better picture of the hada

[nickm]

Attempt at a better picture of the hada

[16k]

Kanbun Shinto?

 

Though that Nakago looks very new...

[nagamaki - Franco]

Don't be discouraged, we all started, more or less, knowing little to nothing. 

[PNSSHOGUN]

The Hada looks like Hizen or Bungo Takada.

[Shugyosha]

I think that there's perhaps enough patina on the tang for it to have been made or shortened as early as the mid 19th century. It looks like there was some rust near the kissaki as there is still a little minor pitting left and I wonder if the suriage was done to save the end portion of a corroded blade. What's the nagasa?

 

I've no idea about the notches on the tang - they appear on some swords but, unless they are markings to help link a blade to koshirae, I've never heard a plausible explanation for them. 

 

For a cheap blade, it looks like it has some quality about it judging by the hada and it's hard not to like value for money. You might want to add some pictures of the detail in the hamon as that might help date it. 

[nickm]

Thank you all for the replies. It looks to me like it is significantly shorted and I could see that being because of some pretty serious corrosion..

 

I attached some more pictures trying to get the Hamon

[nickm]

Hamon definitely does not seem to have much activity to it and I will say the blade is on the thin side but I can't see any spots of core steel.

[nickm]

Also it is just about 19" from tip to munemachi

[Surfson]

To echo others, shortened Kanbun Hizento is my guess.

[nickm]

I appreciate the feedback. Can't be very upset with it regardless for $100 but of course happy to hear it might be on the older side and shortened..

[Stephen]

Yakidashi?

https://studyingjapaneseswords.com/tag/yakidashi/

[nickm]

looks more like yakikomi if not mistaken which is entirely possible

[nickm]

also seems to be koshi sori. rather shallow sori but deepest point seems about 4 inches from the machi.. Also from the shape of the nakago assuming it is shortened it probably would have been a more exaggerated version of koshi sori