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Sorry Jean, messed up a link.
 

Yes - but they are labelled in the description as katana and not everyone will check the papers. There was a post on here recently where a seller was describing a wakizashi as a katana because it was “only a bit short”.

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John,

that is of course correct. A blade shorter than two SHAKU (= 60,6 mm) is a WAKIZASHI by modern definition, and the dealers should point that out correctly.

But I know that many Japanese are not always so strict, when a blade was obviously made as KATANA. Take the case of the UCHI-GATANA many of which are just a tad shorter than two SHAKU. They were not meant to be worn and used as WAKIZASHI. 

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