Wakizashi unsigned UTA
Suitable for beginner
Koto End of Muromachi period (Eisho era about 500 years ago) Echu
Length of cutting edge45.8cm Curvature1.2cm Width of Base29.7mm Thickness of base7.0mm Width of Yokote20.4mm
NBTHK(HOZON) certificate
Sugata(configuration) : Shinogi-zukuri, Iori-mune, Shinogi-ridge is high and rich volume in hiraniku. There is shallow curvature leading to a large tip.
Kitae(forging pattern) : Kitae-hada is conspicuous Itame wooden grain marks mixing in with flowing hada-ware. Shinogi-ji surface shows Masame straight grain mark.
Hamon(tempering pattern) : Hamon is Ko-Nie based Notare wavy, gunome-midare and Togari-ha, Hotsure (fray indication). The interior of temper is filled with whitish NIOI activity and there works with Gunome feet frequently toward the cutting edge. The YUBASHIRI-temper splits over the hiraji partially.
Boshi (tip): The temper of the tip waves Hakikake blushing up indication.
Nakago(tang) : UBU un-altered, Shallow slanted left (Kattesagari) filemarks and round kurijiri heel. One mekugi-ana peg hole. Unsigned.
UTA lineage, a frontier KUNIFUSA who is to say a pupil of NORISHIGE, had moved to Echu province, in the middle of Nanbokucho period (14th century). Most of the existing works which belogned to UTA school were made during Muromachi period. This wakizashi shows a typicla character of UTA, darkish steel, conspicuous Itame hada with flowing ware. Although there is a grain opening mark on Shinogi-ji, it has been well elimitated by a skilled polisher.
Old copper Habaki collar, set in a Shira-Saya plain wood mounting.
