FS a long Koto signed Tachi from Osafune School Late Nanbokucho / Oei era

[Brano]

I am offering for sale a long Koto signed Tachi from Osafune School

Late Nanbokucho / Oei era

The tachi is signed "Bishu Osa", the remaining kanji are unclear

NBTHK Tokubetsu Kicho papers and Sayagaki by Kanzan Sato  - Bishu Osafune Masamitsu - Late Nanbokucho

NTHK - Bishu Osafune Iemori - Oei era

Both smiths are Bizen Kozori School 

The blade is with magnificient shape with strong clear Utsuri

Nagasa 75.4cm

Sori 2.4cm

Motohaba 3.1cm

Sakihaba 2.1cm

Kissaki 2.7cm

Nakago nagasa 23.1cm

The blade its just a little suriage ( 6-8 cm )

Incl. a very good quality Shirasaya

 

Price ... SOLD + PP fee or SEPA payment

Including postage within the EU

 

The complete photo gallery can be found here

https://eu.zonerama.com/Nihonto/Album/6292432

[Gakusee]

Interesting Brano, very interesting..... The mei is probably there but under the corrosion. With optical equipment sometimes it is possible to identify the degraded mei - eg Xray or something

By the way, the sayagaki is by Kanzan Sato and not Kunzan (Honma Junji). 

 

Also, there were some recent threads about what kinsuji is and what  - sunagashi. Your blade has some pretty powerful sunagashi.

[Brano]

Thanks Michael for pointing out my mistake
Corrected :-)
I was trying to use X-ray to identify Mei
Special X-ray for identifying defects in welds
Unsuccessfully

 

[Gakusee]

Oh well, c’est la vie. At least you tried. 
But as you say, the blade has been judged as Kozori by both organisations (Kozori is not a judgement I would doubt on a green paper) and given the hadadachi, ohada craftsmanship, this is a solid call. 

[Brano]

On hold

[Brano]

Sold