info on Sengoku era katateuchi

[Jussi Ekholm]

Well as I've done some nightly reading I thought I should add to this thread some excellent general information found in the Koto-kantei book. There is a lot more info in that book regarding katate-uchi, I'll just quote a small bit.

 

Principally the length of the sword followed the needs of it's wearer but we can also see several chronological and fashion trends. During the late Muromachi period, as mentioned around Eisho and Daiei, mostly short blades with a nagasa of around 60,6 to 63,6 cm with chu-kissaki were in use. These swords were made for a single-handed use (katate-uchi). With eras Kyoroku (1528-1532) and Tenbun (1532-1555), the nagasa increased a bit and measures around 66,6 cm. Also the mihaba became wider and the kissaki somewhat longer. This development was continued throughout the subsequent Genki (1570-1573) and Tensho (1573-1592) eras and towards the end of the Muromachi period, katana blades measured around 69,7 cm, had an even wider mihaba, no noticeable taper, a sakizori and often o-kissaki. With Keicho era (1596-1615), the sakizori started to disappear again and the so-called Keicho-shinto-sugata made it's arrival which bases basically on shorted Nanbokucho blades with shallow sori.

 

A small checklist would include:

Blade length roughly between 1 shaku 8 sun to 2 shaku 2 sun

Short to fairly short nakago

Mihaba with little tapering

Sakizori

[NihontoSeeker]

Hi all NBM members

Ive found a katateuchi and wondered if i can get any and all feedback thank you.

Reuben NihontoSeeker

http://www.sho-shin.com/biz-han1.html

[ancientnoob]

I can't really comment on weather the sword is a good buy or not- I am too new. I would think its a tad expensive being $6000 and all.

 

I too have searched and continue to search for the elusive katate-uchi and it appears that my one humble sword might be just that...

 

[Jean]

I can't really comment on weather

 

I could not agree more: weather forecast is really a drag

 

(Sorry Nathan, I could not resist, i should be )

[Jussi Ekholm]

EDIT: Didn't look the date in Reuben's post... it was a year ago.

 

Nathan do you have more pics?

[ancientnoob]

I can't really comment on weather

 

I could not agree more: weather forecast is really a drag

 

(Sorry Nathan, I could not resist, i should be )

 

 

@ Jean, Yea you got me. Laugh it up. :lol:

[ancientnoob]

EDIT: Didn't look the date in Reuben's post... it was a year ago.

 

Nathan do you have more pics?

 

 

I am just seeing that now. I really need to stop reading the NMB on my phone.

 

Sure I have pictures... If you want specific pictures or better pictures send me a PM.

[Dave R]

Having read all the above and chased up a couple of links, I now wonder if one of mine is one of these beasts.

Sorry for the quality (lack of ) of the photo's.... quick and dirty, done while reading this thread.