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A suriage, machi okure wakizashi, signed nijimei, Fuyohiro.   1  Shaku.  8  Sun.   4  Bu.   5   Rin.   (56.2 cm / 22.125") .  Motohaba:  2.5 cm  Sakihaba:  1.47 cm.  Kasane:  5.34 mm.   Shinogizukure, iroi mune, short chu kissaki.   Ko-gunome notare in a suguba, becoming o-gunome as it progresses toward the front of the blade. Sunagashi, kinsuji, hanie, nado,.  The  irregular boshi resembles a Jizo pattern.  The jigane is itame nagare with hanie, chikei, nado.  The sword is in good old polish, and never has been submitted to shinsa. 

The iron handachi mounted cinnabar saya the seam, a horn kurikata.  The tsuka is polished leather maki, over good quality same, with plain iron fuchi-kashira.  Shakudo menuki of a man in a boat.  The tsuba is a 64 petal chrysanthemum  design, with gold highlights.   The design shows allegiance to the emperor during a time when the Tokugawa were in fullmcontrol, and the imperial household had little wealth and less power.  Cinnabar saya were common in the southern provinces of Satsuma, Choshu, Higo  the seat of the Meiji Restoration. 

There are numerous smiths who signed Fuyohiro.  This piece in in Mino tradition, dating from  later Muromachi.  Due to the style of fighting at this time,  long wakizashi  from Mino and Bizen were used as  uchigatana.   $3,200

Sixty-four Petal Chrysanthemum

      Fuyohiro

Sunagashi

Chikei                                            Sunagashi