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Help with 1600's era katana?


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Noshū Seki-jū Kanekage looks right.

That last kanji is pretty badly worn down so it is hard to say definitively what it is. Anyway, Kanekage is a strong possibility. 

Yes it could be from late 1500s. Nice sanbon-sugi hamon. Pretty scratched up - you might consider giving it a professional polish if you don't mind the expense. In the meantime, keep it off the ground, avoid touching the blade with bare hands, don't try to polish it yourself, etc... 

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Thanks Steve and Dave. I dug through the Nihonto Index and ShoShin websites and it seems to match the Hachiya Seki group, and the last Kanekage in that lineage ends with Kanekage in 1573. Of course, digging through the Nihonto Index, there are a bunch of Noshu Seki Ju Kanekage's from 1300s to 1573, but I can't seem to find any past those dates.

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