Strange Suriage or O-Suriage of Tang

[Cookie_Monstah47]

Greetings,

 

I just took a few swords out of storage and noticed for the first time that the tang has been cut down at a diagonal angle on one of them. Was this a cut-down tachi? The blade has girth and is relatively heavy.

 

More detailed information and photos can be provided.

 

Thanks,

Khalid

[Ray Singer]

Khalid, there are many different ways that the end of the nakago are finished on osuriage swords. This by itself is not indicative that the blade is a tachi. Whether the blade was once a tachi is better determined based on what the blade itself is (when it was made).