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Description: | inscription, engraving, Japanese characters on tang signed by Nobuyoshi of Echizen, Takai Echizen no Kami Minamto Rai Nobugoshi (N2)
Steel blade, broad, tapering, curved and single-edged with single tang hole and inscribed tang with sixteen-petalled chrysanthemum engraved, gunome midare yakiba with mixed nioi and niye (bright and dark spots). Copper habaki covered in silver, half engraved with diagonal strokes below groove and additional part in silver attached to base. | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.science&industry.285334 | Go to resource |
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