NBHTK Hozon Wakizashi in shirasay, mumei, attributed to Shigaseki Kanenobu

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Type (Tachi, Katana, Wakizashi, Tanto, Naginata, Other) : Wakizashi
Ubu, Suriage or O-Suriage : Ubu
Mei : (Mumei, Signature) :  Mumei, attributed to Shigaseki Kanenobu
Papered or not and by whom? : NBHTK Hozon Token
Era/Age : Muromachi
Shirasaya, Koshirae or Bare Blade? : with Shirasaya
Nagasa/Blade Length : 16.75in
Sori : See images, can measure if needed
Hamon Type : See images
Jihada : See images
Other Hataraki Visible : See images
Flaws : See images
Sword Location : Northern Virginia, USA
Will ship to :  CONUS
Payment Methods Accepted : Paypal F/F preferred, please ask if that doesn't work prior
Price and Currency :  $1400 shipped CONUS
Other Info and Full Description :  Purchased from a forum member over on SBG forum, polish is decent and lots of character

 

Thanks for looking!

 

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Ben

 

 

 

 

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Some info on the smith:

 

KANENOBU (兼延), Meiō (明応, 1492-1501), Owari – “Kanenobu” (兼延), son of Muroya-Seki Kaneari (兼在), he
worked first in Oyama (小山) in Mino province and moved later to Shiga (志賀) which was located in the YamadaShōnai (山田庄内) area of Owari, this local context is the origin of the school’s name Shiga-Seki (志賀関), during the
Meiō era, he also worked in the castle town of Sasaki (佐々木) in Ōmi province, that means it is assumed that he moved
to Owari province via a stopover in Ōmi, unfortunately there are no date signatures extant, only the Tenbon Mei Zukushi
(天文銘尽) shows a katana that is dated Bunmei 14 (文明, 1482), and the Kōsei Kotō Meikan (校正古刀銘鑑) shows one
from the third year of Meiō (1494), there exists the theory that there were actually three generations Kanenobu who
were active over Eishō (永正, 1504-1521) to the Tenbun era (天文, 1532-1555), but from the point of view of
workmanship and meiburi it is possible that there was just one Kanenobu who enjoyed a long life, old sources date the
Shiga-Seki line back to the Nanbokuchō era but this is a misinterpretation which bases on a confusion with the
Nanbokuchō smith Naoe-Shizu Kanenobu (直江志津兼延), the katana and wakizashi of the Shiga-Seki line have a wide
mihaba and a somewhat elongated kissaki but we also know more slender, shorter and elegant blades, tantō are rather
small dimensioned and have mostly uchizori, the jigane is a somewhat blackish itame that is mixed with masame and also
shirake can appear, the hamon is a gunome in nie-deki mixed with togari-gunome and sunagashi, some works show also an ōgunome-midare that tends to hitatsura and we also know chū-suguha and suguha with koshiba, some blades have a subdued
nioiguchi and fine nie, the tip of the tang is a ha-agari kurijiri, the yasurime are on katana and wakizashi either gyaku-takanoha
or ō-sujikai, in rare cases also katte-sagari are seen, on tantō the yasurime are higaki, the signature is always a niji-mei, ōwazamono, jō-saku

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Reducing price to $1200

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Price drop: $800 shipped CONUS

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