Strange blade

[Ken-Hawaii]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Fine-3-400-Year-Old-Japanese-Ancestral-Samurai-Katana-Sword-Silver-Habaki-No-Fit-/251295927121?pt=Asian_Antiques&hash=item3a82678b51

 

The abovelisted blade on eBay has five (!!) mekugiana, but the nakago still looks almost ubu. Are blades with that many suriage very common?

 

Ken

[nsealrob]

Hi Ken,

 

I have seen several blades with more than 3 mekugi-ana...they where all shortened tachi...

 

in this case there is little curvation (sori) and the nakago is not ubu....so i wonder if this blade could be a shortened early kamakura or late kamakura blade??

 

nsealrob

[cabowen]

This blade, in my opinion, is not koto. It is too straight to be koto, even if shortened.

 

I don't put too much importance on all the mekugi-ana. Easy to add. Makes a sword look older....

[Surfson]

I agree Chris, it has a Kanbun shinto feel to it. It is a 30 min drive from me and I've been thinking to go have a look. b

[Ken-Hawaii]

Please let us know what you see, Robert - thanks!

 

Ken

[uwe]

Hamon on the last pic pointed towards Mino, I think. Furthermore, kasane on the mune-machi looks quite sound. This leads me to the assumption, that it is probably a ("lately") shortened shinto blade, like mentioned before.

 

Uwe