Excellent Full Polished Sword Japanese Samurai Family crest Aikuchi Koshirae
1600s Early Edo period
Samurai Family crest : Kiri mon
Excellent Full Polished Sword Japanese Samurai Family crest Koshirae
1600s Early Edo period
Fine Aikuchi Koshirae
Samurai Family crest : Kiri mon
Excellent Blade (Mumei)
Hamon : Notare (Beautiful).
Jihada : Mokume hada
Blade material : Tamahagane （玉鋼）
It is Very sharped because an expert has polished it recent year.
Excellent condition Blade.
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Great Aikuchi KOSHIRAE
Wooden TSUKA Shark skin
FUCHI and KASHIRA : Iron (on the Gold & Copper Samurai Family crest) .
MENUKI : Beautiful Peony flowers.
SAYA : Wooden Lacquered (kanshitsu ishime)
KOJIRI : Iron (on the Gold & Copper Samurai Family crest) .
HABAKI : Silver coat on copper base.
Sword bag
with Copy of Japanese cultural registration card (torokusho).
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Size
Koshirae 498 mm / 19.6 inch
Blade Length (Nagasa) 310 mm / 12.2 inch
Nakago + Nagasa 427 mm / 16.8 inch
Blade Width (Motohaba) 30 mm / 1.18 inch
Blade Carve (Sori) 0.2 mm / 0.008 inch
Blade Thick (Motokasane) 7.0 mm / 0.28 inch
Blade weight 306 g / 12.7 oz
Total weight (Koshirae & Blade) 513 g / 18.1 oz
