Saturday 17 October 2015

Naoe Shizu Kanegana Nihonto

This is Naoe Shizu Kanenaga's sword, a very rare item in the world. Naoe Shizu school is very famous school. However many books make an article, but there are not many sword of Naoe Shizu school. 
This Kanenaga have NBTHK Tokubetsu Hzon certificate paper. This kanenaga is not normaly Mino school and It's special order sword.
Cutting edge : 70.5cm
Sori: 1.8cm
Jigane: Strong Itami-Hada and Masame-hada
Hamon: Suguha and Ko-gunome with Ko-Nie
Boshi: Sugu-Komaru nijyuha gokoro
Signature: Kanenaga 
Koshirae: Shirasaya
This rare katana by Naoe Shizu Kanenaga and has a length of 70.5cm and a lovely curvature. It dates back 650 years to a significant time in Japanese history called the Nambokrcho period – also known as the Northern and Southern Courts period. During this era, there existed a Northern Imperial Court in Kyoto, and a Southern Imperial Court in Nara. Ideologically, the two courts fought bitterly for fifty years, with the South giving up to the North in 1392.








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