Naginata 2

[kissakai]

I didn't want to high jack the excellent naginata post already 'running'

Looking through the last post, does this look like a Nanbokuchō naginata or Edo?

 

[Toryu2020]

Edo - deeper curve and broader in the monouchi is a sign of later manufacture...

[kissakai]

Thanks Thomas

 

[Moritsuchi]

What about the nagasa, can it also be viewed as a general trend that they become shorter as time goes on? The ones @Jussi Ekholm has in his presentation from Kamakura and Nambokucho all have blade lengths of ~70-90cm, with equally long nakago. The ones from Edo I saw were only around 40cm in blade length

[Jussi Ekholm]

I would feel the same way as Thomas on this

[kissakai]

I'm making a couple of seppa so had a better look

The nakago shouts Edo and certainly no earlier