Broken wakizashi? Help with identifying age needed

[Wooper58]

Hey all, I bought this a while ago off eBay and was wondering what time period it was made based on these pics

[Stephen]

Well there goes another Masamune...

 

Sorry couldn't resist. 

 

 

[ROKUJURO]

Chris,

do you see any HADA that you could describe? HAMON looks SUGUHA, but do you see NIE or NIOI? What about the SUGATA? It might have been an O-SURIAGE KATANA, KATATE-UCHI or KODACHI or O-WAKIZASHI.... 

On the photos, the NAKAGO looks like EDO era to me, but one has to see this in hand.

The sword was probably cut by the police because it had not been registered. This is not done with high value blades.

I would always be hesitant to touch a blade with my naked hands, even if it was a destroyed blade.....

[ChrisW]

Could be made into a mekugi-nuki!

[Alex A]

Bill T had one like that at a recent show, Yokoyama Sukenaga, signed and dated

 

I could only see the good half and didn't know it was cut. Imagine my disappointment when he pulled it out of the display case 

 

Wartime bring back broken by MPs

 

Still, what was there was very nice, choji, if i remember correctly.

 

[RichardP]

My internet search for “broken nihonto” just revealed an overlooked meibutsu.  

Named “Broken Wind” (presumably for its deadly ability to clear everyone out of the room), this venerable sword is currently in possession of the Chinatown Antiquer.  

[ChrisW]

  On 11/18/2023 at 12:30 PM, RichardP said:

My internet search for “broken nihonto” just revealed an overlooked meibutsu.  

Named “Broken Wind” (presumably for its deadly ability to clear everyone out of the room), this venerable sword is currently in possession of the Chinatown Antiquer.  

 

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Does it smell bad? Might explain its ability to clear a room.

[Baba Yaga]

I would offer to sell a few broken rocks on my Ranch. They smell good and are very old. 

 

 

[Jon]

  On 11/19/2023 at 3:24 PM, Baba Yaga said:

I would offer to sell a few broken rocks on my Ranch. They smell good and are very old. 

 

 

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You have a ranch, that’s just so very cool…as an avid watcher of Dallas I now have visions of southfork.

[Baba Yaga]

  On 11/19/2023 at 10:34 PM, Jon said:

You have a ranch, that’s just so very cool…as an avid watcher of Dallas I now have visions of southfork.

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Yep, without the accolades of Dallas and all the loughs of SouthPark.