hi...i have this Wakizashi sword i was wondering if i could find out anything about it...blade length is 15 1/2" from tip to tsuba ...looks to be a temper line on the blade...ornate menukis.....any help would be appreciated...thnx
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nice to see true nihonto coming out of the wood work, kozuka is signed Tamaba no Kami Yoshimich....the sword...is washed out on my PC were the pic fliped??? look like mirror imagesComment
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yea they were fliped cpl moreComment
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still fliped...
this is is Omi no Kami Minamoto Hisamichi
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other side fliped
might have been a joint work...Izumi no Kami Kunihide tsukura kore
both worked at the same time in late edo...1789 --1804
over all a great find and worth restorLast edited by Budo45; 02-16-2010, 05:36 PM.Comment
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Actually the omote-mei reads 古銘 近江守源久道 (Komei Omi-no-kami Minamoto Hisamichi), the "Komei" translates to old mei and thus means the wak is "attributed" to Hisamichi.
The ura-mei reads 和泉守国秀楊之 (Izumi-no-kami Kunihide ageru kore), and means that Kunihide did the o-suriage that probably converted the original Hisamichi katana into a wakizashi (and thereby losing the Hisamichi mei when the original tang was lopped off).Comment
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