Hello all,
I'm a beginner in study of nihonto and decided to buy my first wakizashi from a non professionnal seller. I know it's risky but the price seemed pretty fair and there was a NTHK kanteisho.
The seller said he bought it few years ago at Nihonto Australia, that seemed to be a good reference.
In other way I'm not sure he really took good care of it, there is a little split on the shirasaya on blade side (he didn't hide it in the announcement). I have also a doubt about the habaki because it doesn't fit well on the blade (jangle a bit).
That would be from Izumi no Kami Kunisada, from the third generation if the translation I have is correct but I read this post that say third and fourth generation didn't exist :
https://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/4897-izumi-no-kami-kunisadawhich-one/#comment-44293
And I read this interesting article https://www.nihontoc...mi_Kunisada_mei.html about first and second generation but didn't really recognized their style of mei on that sword.
So here my questions : is it a genuine nihonto ? If yes, is it gimei ? And at any rate what could you say on this sword ? (era, quality, appraisal ?) Is it worth a polishing ? New shirasaya ?
Here are caracteristic and pics :
Nagasa : 53.6 cm
Sori : 1 cm
Kissaki : 3 cm
Saki kazane : 2 cm
Saki haba : 0.4 cm
Moto kazane : 2.8 cm
Moto haba : 0.6 cm
Nakago : 14.6 cm
Thanks for all.
Benjamin
