Amachi Kanenaga Gendaito Katana

[pcfarrar]

Gendaito signed Kanenaga and dated 3rd Month 1943 a lucky day.

 

In good quality gunto koshirae with a removed mon badge visible on the kabuto gane.

 

"Kanenaga (包永), Shōwa (昭和, 1926-1989), Gifu – „Nōshū Seki no jū Kanenaga kore o saku“ (濃州関之住包永作之), „Kanenaga“ (包永), civilian name „Amachi Ginjirō“ (天地銀次郎), older brother of Amachi Suzuichi (天地鈴市), he was born on the fourth day of the ninth month Meiji 17 (1884) and died March 8th 1958, he worked as guntō smith, posthumous Buddhist name „Enkaku Chikyō“ (円覚智鏡)"

 

Lovely Bizen style choji hamon with a lot of hataraki, Kanenaga did make showato as well but this appears to be a true gendaito. It has some damage to the ha which probably happened during its use in WW2. The saya has a carved name which seems to be A HYND. Alexander Hynd was a Scottish Corporal who fought in the battles of Kohima and Imphal. He was also at Dunkirk during the evacuation. The sword was found during a house clearance in the lake district, I can't prove its the correct A. Hynd but it seems likely.

 

I've seen quite a few of Amachi Kanenaga's swords and so far nothing comes close to this one.

 

£900, unfortunately it's buyer collect only from the UK. With the recent changes in the law it's just not worth trying to ship, I'm not far from Manchester.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 13 by pcfarrar

[pcfarrar]

Some more photos showing the edge damage. I would recommend keeping the sword as is, you can see everything you need to see and no real point polishing it. 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 17 by pcfarrar

[Bruce Pennington]

Beautiful sword, Peter.  A steal at that price.

Good luck with the sale.

[pcfarrar]

I thought this would have sold by now, but I'll take it down to £800. Doubt you'll find a better gendaito in the UK for that price.

[Stropp]

Are you able to ship to the US?

[pcfarrar]

42 minutes ago, Stropp said:

Are you able to ship to the US?

 

As far as I'm aware I can't ship at all, even to people in the UK. I know dealers like Matt Easton here are able to ship but I'm not sure how they are doing it.

[pcfarrar]

On 9/3/2026 at 7:53 AM, Stropp said:

Are you able to ship to the US?

I believe US shipping is possible but it must be with UPS and everything declared to the correct value and description. US recipients would also likely have to pay a 10% tariff.

[pcfarrar]

I can do this sword for $1165 shipped to the USA.