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Small shin-shinto tanto in shirasaya.

 

The tanto has a bright nie based suguha hamon with lots of nie in the habuchi and plenty of activity. It has a very nice ko-itame jigane with chikei and ji-nie. The blade has a mitsu-mune and is ubu mumei. There is a remnant of a koshi-hi on the omote.

 

It's in a decent old Japanese polish, has some scratches but can be well appreciated as is. No fatal flaws. The shirasaya has a few dings but is in overall good condition. The tanto has an excellent quality solid silver habaki.

 

In my opinion the nakago has been re-patinated to make it appear older than it is. I'm pretty sure this is shin-shinto, that was made as a copy of a koto tanto. Either way its a well made good quality blade.

 

19.3cm nagasa, 6mm kasane

 

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