help with katana

[waynes]

Hi everyone, I am trying to find out as much info on this katana I reciently purchased as possible,time period providence school, just for my own knowledge. I am a beginner at this so if I am wrong about something please let me know as that's how we learn. Any info or thearys would be greatly appreciated. The nagasa is 68.2cm the whole length 86.3cm the sori 2.4cm. Sword in hand the hada is a fine ko-itame-hada. You also notice that there is what's left of a mekugi-ana at the end of the tang also what appears to be part of a kanji. There is also file marks on the upper half of the nagasa they border on the edge of being kiri-suji-chigai and taka-no-ha. Also looking at the nagasa you can tell that the munemachi was cut in later. All of this corosponds to my thoughts that it has been cut down about 12cm. I will be borrowing a better camara and getting some more pics shortly. Thank you in advance for any help. I got that other camara it's no better than the last sorry. I resized the photo's.

[Stephen]

we really can not tell much from the pix posted, reduced way to far down. from the large photo it still looks like a very good start. Close ups of the the Nakago will help. if youd like to send them to me ill play around with them.