Katana OR Wakizashi?

[NewB]

Below

 

https://www.aoijapan...kunbthk-hozon-token/

 

Would anyone be willing to clear this hurdle once and for all please

 

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Y

[mywei]

Technically a katana in length (just) - NBTHK certificate also states it is a katana

[NewB]

17 minutes ago, mywei said:

Technically a katana in length (just) - NBTHK certificate also states it is a katana

 

Thank you. 

 

Y

[PNSSHOGUN]

When it's this close and was obviously a Katana originally, the Wakizashi definition seems rather arbitrary. Nice looking sword though, it looks to closely follow the 3rd or 4th Gen workmanship.

[NewB]

2 hours ago, PNSSHOGUN said:

When it's this close and was obviously a Katana originally, the Wakizashi definition seems rather arbitrary. Nice looking sword though, it looks to closely follow the 3rd or 4th Gen workmanship.

 

My point precisely :

 

The Warring Times, the slightly suriage mono uchi (or kazu-uchi 🤭) that got classified as wakizashi although the fact they had for the most part mainly 24-26" of nagasa for the close combat technique at the time..

 

Longer ones were the 'traditional' samurai in lame terms.

 

how could a .8 cm short of katana wakizashi not be a katana after the aforementioned facts?

 

 

Fair price

 

 

slippery slope ..

 

Y

[Guest Simon R]

Ye gods. Tsuruta-san does talk a load of old flannel, sometimes.

"In my opinion, this sword shares strong similarities with the works of the 2nd-generation (Kanemoto)."

Oh really? Since when has Seki no Maguroku had a perfectly symmetrical sanbon sugi hamon?

 

"...the Tokyo National Museum identifies it as Kanemoto Masamoto (3rd-generation). Perhaps, they are considering it as a work from the 3rd-generation."

No s**t, Sherlock. If they had considered it 2nd generation, you certainly wouldn't be putting in an auction starting at ¥450,000 - you'd be privately offering it to all your top-end Japanese customers first. 

 

 

[ROKUJURO]

John,

nowadays, we have a sharp definition by the NBTHK:

TANTO = less than 1 SHAKU
WAKIZASHI: between 1 and 2 SHAKU
KATANA/TACHI: more than 2 SHAKU

1 SHAKU = 303 mm

The older terms like O-TANTO, SUN NOBI TANTO, KO-WAKIZASHI and O-WAKIZASHI, CHIISA GATANA, UCHI GATANA, KATATE UCHI a.s.o. are seen as historical terms referring to the time of production of a blade.

[lonely panet]

it will kill you just the same.  

 

 

if its a duck !