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What happened to this nakago?


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I agree with Stephen, looks like active rust was removed leaving the notches. I have seen many pieces of steel dug up, they do not necessarily deteriorate evenly throughout. Some spots will be worse than others even though it was a buried.

 

I do hope no one thinks they are going to snag a legitimate Yasatsugu here. The mei is not right, just saying.

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Might it be an abandoned attempt at suriage ?

 

It might be the rust thing, but the notches look very deliberate to me, and rust in general does not act in predictable ways as far as I know.

 

KM

 

 

+1. Look at the shape that would have been obtained, I think it's quite obvious this was a shortening attempt, abandoned for unknown reasons.

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To add to what Stephen says, the Japanese did have chisels and saws to perform suriage. So I am not certain what happened here, but the rust story still remains elusive to me. It is absolutely useless to leave a nakago like that because suriage in this case would have been the best option.

 

KM

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I'm not sure if this is the case here but it seems I read somewhere that chunks of nakago are sometimes used in doing umegane. Again, not saying this is the case here but I have seen pictures of similar nakago with deeper notches and less active looking rust. Just throwing that out there.

 

Doug

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