221/2"Katate-uchi
Daito "One Handed Fighting Sword" by
NBTHK Tokubetsu
Hozon
Specifies: "Shodai
Sengo Muramasa"
1stGeneration
Tanobei Sayagaki
reads:
"Seishu Kuwana ju Muramasa"
"Although it is Ubu Nakago
Mumei, it displays the characteristics of the first generation Muramasa
outstandingly"
"This smith is called Uemon
no Jo and the period is ca. Bunki 1501"
"The Edge length is a little
less than 1 shaku, 8 sun, 9 bu = 57.0cm 22.5"
"Recorded by Tanzan (Tanobe
Michihiro) in the early morning of late April of the year of the Goat,
Heisei 15, 2003" |
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Note: Katate-Uchi,
"One
Handed Fighting Sword" were long swords. The Japanese
produced this Daito style from the period of Bun-mei 1469 through Ten-mon
1532. Through most of the Sengoku, when the fight would be one to one in
battle, the Katatechi was the favored weapon for three generations.
See
Katateuchi
Any sword having a Nagasa
of 21 3/4"
to 25 1/2"
from those Koto times was not a Wakizashi but the famous Katateuchi. Many
of the great swords and treasure pieces from that era, by Muramasa to Yozozaemon
were made in this Sugata. Katateuchi is the predominant style of the Sengoku. |
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