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More pictures of the koshirae

More pictures of the koshirae

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Hello gents, I offer a beautiful Naginata Naoshi Wakizashi, that I currently received back from the NTHK shinsa in Chicago last month. The blade is mumei. The Naginata Naoshi was attributed to Boshu Nio Kiyozane, who worked in the first half of the 15th century around 1440. Here are the measurements: Nagasa: 41cm Nakago Nagasa: 12,8cm Motohaba: 2,7cm Sakihaba: 2,5cm Sori: 1,2cm Motokasane: 0,3cm The workmanship is influenced by Yamato and Soshu den. The sword was originally made as a Naginata, but later shortened to its current length, so it became a Naginata Naoshi with a shobuzukuri construction. The blade has a itame hada mixed with a burl mokume hada, which becomes a straighter Yamato style masame hada through the edge. The hamon is made in suguha notare with a deep nioi guchi of prevalent nie. This complex hamon ends in a beautiful yakizume boshi. Additional activities inside the wakizashi are yabashiri, ji nie, nijuba and inazuma. The overall condition of this sword is excellent to near mint. The old Japanese polish is quite good. There is a larger ware on one side of the blade, but it is nether fatal nor disturbing. This blade comes with a high quality edo period koshirae. The worksheet of the NTHK shinsa is included in this sale. As soon as I receive the kanteisho from Japan, I will send it to the new owner. The wakizashi stays currently with me in Germany and can be shipped worldwide with DHL premium international. My asking price is 2900€ or best offer. Payment should be done via paypal friends and family, or with a transaction directly to my bank account.

Here are pictures of the matching numbers shingunto mounts. A nice Yasukunito for a good price.

Here are some of Ray‘s pictures, which I didn‘t post before. Perhaps they can give additional impressions of this Naginata Naoshi Wakizashi.

I tried to take pictures of the sugata, but I don‘t think that my photos will help to clear the above mentioned questions.

I submitted with the help of Chris Bowen a koto naginata naoshi wakizashi, which I believed was made by the Naoe Shizu school. The shinsa panel attributed this mumei blade to Boshu Nio Kiyozane. It gets a score of 72, which I find reasonable.

The new asking price is 5000€ obo.

The second picture

The nakago of my naginata naoshi has taper towards the end of the tang. The kasane becomes thinner. I made two pictures of the nakago, but unfortunately the requested details can’t be seen very clearly.

The above posted naginata naoshi wakizashi is part of a special order daiso made by Kiyomaro. I guess it is his famous tokubetsu juyo daisho. This image is also taken from the book „Kiyomaro celebrating the 200th anniversary of the artist’s birth“.

Here is a picture from the above mentioned book showing another example of this nakago sugata. This blade is a tanto.

Here I share two pictures taken from the book „Kiyomaro’s 200th birthday“, which show a naginata naoshi wakizashi with a sugata identical to mine.

Georg, I am sure you didn’t read every post Rivkin posted in this thread, right ? I don’t criticize his nihonto related opinion about activities inside the hamon or the hada being coarse. I criticize him, because he provoked me and even Ray Singer with his polemic rhetoric and continued to suggest that people of the younger generation can’t stand risks or moral responsibility for their actions. I don’t see any necessity to stay polite, when a person like Rivkin tries to play games like this.

I reduce the asking price to 5600€ obo.

Georg, I guess you read the title of this thread, right ? I called it a wakizashi from the Kiyomaro mon to underline the fact that there is still room for suspicion about who exactly from the above mentioned school made this blade. Rivkin thinks he knows everything about me, my generation and this particular sword. He is nothing more than a nasty moron who wants to be important. His knowledge is nothing that I can not find in books or online. I don’t want to educate anyone here about the question what can be seen in Ray‘s pictures. I think everyone here can find kantei information about Kiyomaro and his mon online and judge by themselves if this naginata naoshi fits the characteristics sufficient or not. As I wrote before, a more or less definite result can only be issued by a NBTHK shinsa.

Rivkin, you try to say aufrichtig und gradlinig… Please don’t abuse my native language. I am in no way part of the pc movement. I only show some kind of contenance towards subjects like you. Otherwise I would show you quite bluntly what kind of traditional German I am.

The new asking price is 5900€ obo.

I know how slowly things can work out nowadays. Nonetheless I am in no hurry to get the shinsa results. I will probably send the wakizashi in the next few months to a shinsa agent, who will hopefully be able to show the sword to Tanobe Sensei prior to the NBTHK evaluation. I own and enjoy this naginata naoshi since February 2022 and I won’t sell it neither with papers nor without any kanteisho.

Hello Georg, I plan to ship the wakizashi next year to Japan for a NBTHK hozon shinsa. Besides I want to hear Tanobe Sensei‘s opinion about this sword before the submission. I will also ask some craftsmen to build a new shirasaya and a new habaki for this naginata naoshi. All the best