Some pics of my new aquisition

[hybridfiat]

Mumai wakizashi nagamaki style.

No idea of the era.

Nice polish and koshira for the money.

Im making a secure display cabinet for the blades.

[DirkO]

Some overal shots maybe ?

[hybridfiat]

Tomorrow :lol:

[hybridfiat]

Im dissapointed that the edge has a couple of marks on it and 2 scratch lines.

I think they happened in transport and possibly the scratches at customs.

The sword was very well wrapped but the movement of the blade in the saya may account for the marks. The tip is like a needle and just resting the blade gently flat on the bed and then picking it up again left a small hole in the sheet.

The koshira is nice but the tsuka is loose and needs a shim or 2.

It is a real meat cleaver, very heavy and broad. It was hard to get a good impression of how much heft this nagamaki has. The tsuka is not enough for such a weapon as this.

The blister is something I am able to live with.

 

[Bungo]

looks like a nice " Choshu-ish " tsuba, is it signed ?

 

milt

[hybridfiat]

looks like a nice " Choshu-ish " tsuba, is it signed ?

 

milt

 

 

Yes but it is illegible unfortunately.

If I can find a way of getting a pic the mai I will.

Ive tried a rubbing but it is really faint.

[Marius]

It is a real meat cleaver, very heavy and broad. It was hard to get a good impression of how much heft this nagamaki has.

 

I have a naginata (nagamaki) naoshi, too, and it is really heavy. Funny enough, I have recently acquired a Edo Shimosaka Yasutsugu School wakizashi which has been made a waki with naginata naoshi shape, and this one, to my surprise is heavy and massive, too. Has yours got a yakizume boshi?

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Its' a chopper alright, the width at the yokote is greater than the width at the Ha Machi.

No it has an o mara or o maru boshi. Small turn back.

Correct me if Im wrong on the terminology.