Approximate Age of this Sword please.

[Glenn]

Hi everyone, just chasing info on approx age.

Nagasa is 18 inch

and has no signature on tang.

Any help much appreciated. 

cheers Glenn

[Geraint]

Dear Glenn.

 

Well you know that it's been shortened, right?  If it had a mei that looks like it will have gone along with the original nakago.  Narrow shinogi ji and overall shape, I would start with sue koto and work from there.  We don't have a useful photograph of the kissaki which is a shame.

Tsuba is one of the regular designs for Echizen Kinai saku and it seem to have a kogai where you might expect a kodzuka.  Nice saya.

 

Any use?

 

All the best.

[Glenn]

thank you very much geraint any info is helpful and it has some age to it   .glenn

[AntiquarianCat]

Hello Glenn,

I also agree with the late muromachi attribution: it looks like your sword has a lot of sakisori and a fairly wide mihaba.

 

If it helps, Markus Sesko has an excellent site for recognizing date by sugata https://markussesko.com/2015/04/03/kantei-1-sugata-6/

[David Flynn]

The Blade is Tired.   The Jitetsu is weak towards the Hamachi.   It wouldn't take a polish.    I believe, the weak area of the Jitestsu would open up a lot more.