A beautiful blade with very vivid Midare style Hamon that has plenty if activities observable. The polish itself is very decent, though suffering from a few minor rust spots and stains due to long term storage, there’s no serious imperfection or damages observable on the blade.
Koshirae fittings are well fitted and solid with no damages observable. Overall condition as shown in the photos.
Period – Late Koto
Paper – No Origami
Mei – Mumei
Nagasa – 60.3 cm
Sugata – Shinogi-zukuri
Sori – 1 cm
Kissaki – Chu
Mune – Iori
Kasane – 0.9 cm
Mihaba – 3.2 cm
Nakago – Ubu – Standard with kuri-jiri
Mekugi Anna – 1
Yasurime – Not Seen
Hamon – Nioi-deki
Boshi – Ko-maru
Hada – Itame
Price – £1600