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An Echigo wakizashi
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An Echigo wakizashi

MOMOYAMA PERIOD (16TH CENTURY), SIGNED ECHIGO [NO] KUNI KASUGA JU KANENORI, KICHIEMON-JO ZO

Closed23 March 2011

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An Echigo wakizashi
Momoyama period (16th century), signed Echigo [no] kuni Kasuga ju Kanenori, Kichiemon-jo zo
Sugata [configuration]: shinogi-zukuri with shallow curvature, mune-hikushi and o-kissaki
Kitae [forging pattern]: itame
Hamon [tempering pattern]: gunome
Boshi [tip]: ichimai
Nakago [tang]: suriage with higaki file marks, one mekugi-ana, kiji-momo and kengyo
Habaki [collar]: single gold-clad copper
Nagasa [length of blade]: 44cm

Specialist note

A blade with this signature is listed as no. 41 in Echigo tokoshi ten: Nobuhide to sono shuhen (Exhibition of the history of Echigo swordsmithery: Nobuhide and those around him) (Niigata: Broadcasting System of Niigata Museum, 1984).