Tamashigiri , cutting test

[Tengu1957]

Satsuma sword with Tameshigiri
Wakizashi signed and dated by shinshinto Moto Oki 
Two months after the sword was made it was taken to Senju execution grounds and the TaiTai cut ( 2nd most difficult through the sternum and spine ) was made into the dodan ( sand pile ). The test was done by a member of the Yamada school of test cutters Toshikage . Old NBTHK green papers 

 

[Volker62]

wakizashi by Miyoshi Nagamichi ( Kiritsuke Mei)

 

cutting test  on 19th October 1853

 

6th year Ox year Kaei.

 

Cutting Test of Taitai Dotanbarai by Yama Genzo  yoshitaka at Senju

[Volker62]

translation:

 

 

it was used  to cut through the shoulders of somwone and hit the ground