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A Mino Shizu Katana
Nanbokucho Period (CIRCA 1340), With inlaid signature Kaneuji
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line, shallow peaked back and medium point; length (nagasa): 2 shaku, 2 sun, 9.5 bu (incorrectly entered as 3 bu on the sayagaki) (69.7cm.); curvature (sori): very shallow koshi-zori of 0.9 cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 0.6 cm.; carving (horimono): two narrow grooves on each side, terminating in pointed and squared ends and deep inside the tang. Forging pattern (jihada): wood grain intermixed with masame and dusted with some scattered ji-nie. Tempering pattern (hamon): undulations mixed with some ko-notare in nie; centered mainly in the area near the monouchi are areas of 'swept sands' elsewhere there are 'legs' (ashi) and yo. Point (boshi): small and rounded with some hakikake. Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): o-suriage; file marks (yasurime): slanted (katte-sagari); end (nakagojiri): squared (kirijiri); holes (mekugi-ana): three; signature (mei): gold inlay (kin-zogan), Kaneuji; on the reverse, Chokon (Sugawara Chokon Kiwame) with kao.
Shirasaya with attestation signed Kunzan (Homma Junji) and Iga Norishige.
Accompanied by a juyo token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., dated Showa 50 (1975)