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Gunto Katana

Katana(Gunto): Akitomi/Syowa 20th January (1945)

2017/01/03

Katana(Gunto) in Shirasaya, with Army Gunto Koshirae.(Guarantee NBTHK Hozon paper.)

Signature : Akitomi (Koyano Akitomi)
Syowa 20th January (1945)

The blade was polished
Habaki :silver single.
Blade length : 67.27 cm or 26.48 inches.
Sori : 0.6cm or 0.23 inches.
Mekugi : 1
Width at the hamachi : 3.23 cm or 1.27 inches.
Width at the Kissaki : 2.16cm or 0.85inches.
Kasane : 0.74 cm or 0.29 inches.
Era : War time.
Shape : The blade is wide and thick with Ubu-ha healthy blade.
Jitetsu :Koitame had well grained with jinie atach beautiful texture.

Hamon : Niedeki gunome midair and cyoji midair mix with a lot of ash work.

Special feature : Akitomi was working at war time.
At the navy sword technical contest, He got the chirman prize 14th.
At that day, Nigara Kunitoshi got the prize of Army minister prize
and Miyagi Akimori got the prize of chirman prize #14 and Akitomi got the #43.
He was a student of the Kurihara Akihide.
His work is gunome cyoji midair with ash which is very active nice work.
Koshirae : army Gunto koshirae. nice condition.

Historical background: during world war 2.

We GUARANTEE that the sword will pass NBTHK Hozon Shinsa.
Aoi Art estimation paper : whole Oshigata.

Price : 230,000 JPY-


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