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Wakizashi with destroyed scabbard

blade length 45.2cm
 
This is a Shin-shinto blade with pitiful condition, no handle, no habaki. Its shape is Shobu-zukuri with a long kissaki.
The scabbard is mosaic of pearl shells, but very destroyed.
We have made some part polishing with the arato stone to see the hamon. It is made of much nie (large particles), making a very wide wavy pattern.



The hamon is wide enough, and so is the meat on most parts of the blade. But only one area has small meat. The area with red mark is too depressed to make a proper shape by restoring.

This blade may be suitable for amateur polisher's practice.
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