This is a long and powerful katana attributed to Kanabô Masatsugu, a textbook example of the school's battle-tested blades. It features a strong shape, shallow curvature, wide mihaba, thick kasane, and a massive ô-kissaki. The blade exhibits masame-hada with mokume-hada, ji-nie, and chikei, and a bright hamon with ko-midare, ko-chôji, and togari-ba.
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Koto – Late Muromachi Period (eiroku era: 1558-1570)
74.7 cm
1.6 cm
3.29 cm
This is a long and powerful katana attributed to Kanabô Masatsugu, a textbook example of the school's battle-tested blades. It features a strong shape, shallow curvature, wide mihaba, thick kasane, and a massive ô-kissaki. The blade exhibits masame-hada with mokume-hada, ji-nie, and chikei, and a bright hamon with ko-midare, ko-chôji, and togari-ba.
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Tracked across 76 dealers worldwide · price history · sold archive
Koto – Late Muromachi Period (eiroku era: 1558-1570)
74.7 cm
1.6 cm
3.29 cm
