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Answer #3 previous answer is Mumei (unsigned) Sanekage.


The blade is blackish and visible to see the texture.
Hamon :There are a lot of activities in ha like many sunagashi and kinsuji.
Kissaki: it is rather longer kissaki which looks like Nanbokucyo style.

Appraisal Quiz #5 (2008.07.25)

Who made this sword do you think ?

 

Hint:

Blade length : 53.01 cm or 20.87 inches.
Sori : 1.5 cm or 0.59 inches.
Mekugi: 1
Width at the hamachi :3.01 cm or 1.18 inches.
Wide at the Kissaki : 2.12 cm or 0.83 inches.
Kasane : 0.64 cm or 0.252 inches.

Shape : The blade is rather wide and thick deeper sori nice looking shape.
Jitetsu :Koitame hada well grained with jinie attach.
Hamon : Niedeki suguha and double hamon with deeper nioikuchi.

Special features : Jigane is very fine. The jigane of this school is
sama as this elegant fantastic jigane.
Generally he made 90% suguha hamon with thick nie Cyusuguha hamon. Sometimes he made active gunome midare hamon.
His kawagane is thin.
The hamon start like #1 not #2 which touch the hamon on the
edge of the blade. This is very important to judge whether the
blade is genuine or fake sword.

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