This is a beautiful wild Yokoyama Bizen sword by a well known smith. A fine signed ubu piece with a beautiful sugata. The hamon is a wildly erratic Gunome midare that starts off in sugu-ha. There are also togare-ba like peaks throughout. This wakazashi is tightly forged and is well made, only a little coarseness is visible on the one side in the shinogi-ji and is hardly noticeable. The hamon has many hataraki with wisps of yubashiri atop from place to place. The hada is a tight well worked ko-itame with no forging flaws. The boshi is Ko-maru. A great signed Shinto sword papered by the NTHK.
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KOZUKE NO DAIJÔ SUKESADA
SHÔSHIN
Length is 1 shaku, 6 sun, 3 bu
May 9, 1993
Mei inscription: YOKOYAMA KOZUKE NO DAIJÔ FUJIWARA SUKESADA
BISHÛ OSAFUNE JÛNIN
Kitae: Ko-itame
Hamon: GONOME MIDAREBA SUGU ??
Bôshi: KO-MARU KAERI
Nakago: 1 ana, Yasuri is KIRI
Remarks; Around GENROKU (1688-1704)
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