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My New Wakizashi I Recently Bought.


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I just got this Wakizashi this week.


Better then what I thought, very heavy and thick and robust meaty blade, beautiful black rust on the Nakago.
And to make it better, it has a great O-Kissaki tip on it.

I could not be more happier with it.

It's going to need a Shirasaya, and not sure if I want to send it off for a full polish, it has plenty of polish for me, beautiful Hamon, and great Hada.

Really nicely detailed Habaki also.

The blade is Mumei, unsigned, and I believe it to be from the Shinto Era.

The total length is 20.5 inches total.

The width of the blade is slightly over 3.5 inches, close to 4 inches.

I just need the tag that is glued on the Tsuka translated now.

Of course I had to properly clean it.

An very knowledgeable person said the following about it;



His Impression is that this may be a Sue-koto sword rather than Shinto. The blade has a wide mihaba and a pronounced saki-zori. There are pools of mokume in the middle of the ji. I would guess that this a sword that is related to Soshu, such as Tsunahiro. The mokume placement is also a trait of Shitahara;




Thanks..
 

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From the sugata I'm guessing Keicho shinto. Shinshinto might be another possibility but I think the patina on the tang and the hada is inconsistent with this. 

 

I read somewhere the these outsize blades were carried by sumo wrestlers who made a normal sized blade look ridiculously small but that might be apocryphal. 

 

In any case a very nice blade.

 

Best,

John

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In this case, Joe, we must speak of a naginata naoshi zukuri and not of a naginata naoshi. Generally when it is a naginata naoshi zukuri, there is the naginata hi. Furthermore this one has a yokote. A bg sori does not automatically lead to a naginata naoshi zukuri.

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I read somewhere the these outsize blades were carried by sumo wrestlers who made a normal sized blade look ridiculously small but that might be apocryphal. 

 

Heyas all,

 

Aoi has a wide and thick blade described as such in part:

 

"Mmarvelous gorgeous shape and healthy blade which is called Oni no Hocyo (Demon’s kitchen knife).

The blade is huge wide and thick healthy blade and it was used by Sumo wrestler I think."

 

So maybe they were used by Sumo wrestlers then. Also reference to Hocyo, for the sugata. Cool.

 

link is: http://www.aoijapan.com/wakizashi-kikumon-ecchu-no-kami-masatoshi-kodai

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