JAPANESE PRE WWII SWORD KNOWN AS A UCHIGATANA (SINGLE HANDED SWORD)

A most beautiful blade measuring 23 ¼  inches having a fabulously closely formed cloudy hamon. Dated ‘February 1683’, at this period small swords were in fashion and then demand for merchants and townspeople non Samurai. Tang signed. All fitted into its wooden Shirisaya mounts and an extremely comprehensive drawn and written identification and expertise of the sword by the well known Liverpool Japanese sword dealer Bill Tagg in 2022. 

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Ref; 97338 XGB