Een antieke en gesigneerde wakizashi uit de Shinto periode.
Een erg mooi blad met een prachtige itame-hada in een traditioneel gemaakte en perfect sluitende shirasaya. Interessant is dat deze wakizashi nog alleen de originele mekugi-ana heeft.
De katana-mei bestaat uit 7 karakters met de signatuur: Kawachi no Kami Kunisuke
Over de smid:
The first gen. KUNISUKE was born in Kanbe, Ise province (now in Suzuka-city). He was a Jo-Saku and Wazamono rated smith. It is assumed that he was born very early in the Keicho period (very early 17th century). He moved to Kyoto and became a disciple of a well-known great master Horikawa KUNIHIRO on about 16-17th year of Keio (A.D.1611-1612). He studied under the tutorship of Echigo-no-kami KUNITOMO. After master KUNIHIRO passed away, he moved to Osaka which was a very busy City. He was bestowed the Kawachi-no-kami title from the Imperial Court in early Kanei period. He had refined KUNIHIRO's workmanship and sublimate it into a beauty of art that fascinated both the Samurais and merchants of Osaka. The subject brave and heroic wakizashi would be made around early 30 plus years of age. It is strongly influenced by the work of Izumi-no-kami KANESADA (the best cutting performance) style and certainly successfully expressed. The forging was fine and the steel was selected carefully.
