Wakizashi

[Fumei]

Hello All !

Please provide your opinions on the manufacturing period of this Wakizashi. 

What do these two mekugi ana mean?

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

 

 

[francois2605]

Can you please provide a complete picture of the bare blade ?

 

The experts will need to see to whole sugata to give an opinion.

[SAS]

Maybe a cut down katateuchi resized to wakizashi size.

[DoTanuki yokai]

Also dimensions could help, not knowing the size is missleading into wrong conclusions. I mean wider blades appear shorter on pictures.

[Fumei]

Can you please provide a complete picture of the bare blade ?

 

The experts will need to see to whole sugata to give an opinion.

 

Here is a photo of the blade

total length - 56 cm

length of the nagasa - 46 cm

[Fumei]

Colleagues, what do you think about the age of this sword?

[Fumei]

Additional photos

 

 

[Ganko]

It has a Hizen Shinto feel to me.

[SAS]

Guessing late Koto....

[DoTanuki yokai]

Ohh nobody answerd the question about the two mekugiana so i will do my best.

The blade is suriage that means shortend at the nakago and the lower mekugiana could be the first original mekugiana. Also it could be more shortned and the real first mekugiana isnt there anymore.

So the blade dont have the orignial lenght anymore what makes it harder to estimate the period by sugata.

I would say early shinto or late Koto.

 

It looks like it still has funbari or  i am wrong ?

[16k]

I’d go for late Koto myself.

[MHC]

Comment moved to "new topic".

 

Mark

[DoTanuki yokai]

One could think of fake suriage just too appear older. Alternative would be that the shortening was not much later then the manufacturing date.

[Fumei]

Colleagues! Many thanks to everyone for discussing the topic.

[Alex A]

Not easy using images.

 

Id go late Muromachi too. The blade appears to have seen some polishes, looking at the Hamachi, hamon and slender shape. 

 

Originally, don't look to be katana length

 

Style of suriage, straight chop, think that comes under the heading "keicho" suriage.

 

Id go with what Steve said above.

 

Decent one too.

[Ken-Hawaii]

Based on sugata & mekugiana, my vote is mid-Muromachi. The broken tip is bad enough, but am I also seeing the hamon run off the tip?

[SAS]

Does not seem that way to my eyes.

[Babu]

Looks like there is a flaw that's encouraged machi-okuri to move it to under the habaki area and off the blade or am I imagining that?.regards Adam