Wakizashi no-signature
Blade length 53.4cm, thickness at the base 7mm, width 2.7cm
This is a wakizashi blade shortened from a long blade. The age is 15-16th century.
Steel has a wood grain layer pattern. It is visible.
Hamon is made of large particles (nie). Its pattern is straight, including small activities. Hamon in kissaki also is a straight pattern.
The polishing is the modern style. The work is not very good and not very poor. So, it is OK. You can study the interesting activities around the temper line. Those are ashi, yo, kinsuji, and some others. This is a typical sword probably from 15-16th century. This is a good sample for beginners to study what koto blade is.
If the blade is re-polished in good way, its beauty could come up more.
Tang
The work of shortening is very proper.
Habaki is silver foiled.
Shirasaya and bag
220,000.yen
NBTHK paper is added. The rank is "Hozon-token". They attributed it to "Mihara". Mihara is a school in Bingo province worked from 14-16th century. The attribution "Mihara" means not ko-Mihara (14th century) or sue-Mihara (16th century). So, some Mihara smith in 15th century. This time the attribution is very possible, we think.
