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This exquisette katana has great workmanship and a beautiful gunome midare hamon in absolute pristine condition.  It is in a fresh new polish. The sword is signed and dated ”  Kashu ju Kane Hisa 1842. The pictures not do justice to this sword.  The hamon is very rich with a solid nioi-guchi.  It has many hataraki and ji-nie appear.  The hada is very well forged with a milky looking color of a tighly forged itame .  This Shinto Katana also has an elegant shape and is very well balanced.  The mounts are in very good condition and add to the overall value of this sword.  The fittings are elegant and have a quality of richness with a traditional look and display very well.  Overall this is a fine Japanese katana.  The Fuchi-Kashira has a floral motif as well as the menuki.

The mounts are of very good quality from tsuka to saya. The floral motif beautifully finish the tsuka with an exceptional deep black tsukaito wrap. The saya is an exquisite unusual 2 tone black with red lacquer and kojiri. The floral motif was often used as a theme for Asian art. Mythological subjects and auspicious symbols were sometimes used as motifs for Japanese sword furniture. Floral motifs could stand alone as designs unto themselves, particularly if they had seasonal or symbolic associations, but they were also used as decorative patterns surrounding or backing more pictorial motifs such as bugs etc. The tsuba reminds one of a tachi style in iron. The menuki appear gold-washed and the same is old and original to the tsuka.

The hamon is a gorgeous gunome midare with a very rare and unusual shape throughout. The Kashu smiths were noted for their wonderful interpretations within their hamon. This hamon is a variation of the ear shaped gunome or mimi-gata. There is a high quality shirasaya and tsunagi to finish the blade