I've recently inherited this sword, and based off what little knowledge I have, I can tell it's authentic. I'm obsessively interested in finding out the origins of this. (My dad died before he could tell me where he got it) -
Attached are images of the blade; I've attached the detail of what I think is the forging pattern, it looks like its closest to itame-hada. I can't tell the detail of the Nie & Nioi to decide if it suits either. The hamon looks like it suits suguha/ Ko-Midare. Boshi looks most like saki-togaru. Filemarks look most like O-Sujikai. Note that I'm only using a small handbook for reference and with an untrained eye, my assumptions are likely to be way off. It looks to be recently remounted so I've' not included the handle, but the tsuba and habaki may be original, but I'm yet to photograph those. It's also been suggested that this is a suriage blade. Do let me know if any of you have any thoughts on the origin/era/school/smith.
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