Features:

An ubu chu Koto katana from well-established Uda school of Etchu. This is a work by the 1st generation Uda Kunitsugu who was active in the early 1400’s. The Uda school worked mainly in the Soshu tradition, with works featuring the vibrancy and violent aesthetic associated with Masamune’s legacy. This example is ubu and healthy, rare traits for a 600 year old sword.

The blade features a stout, straighter sugata. The nakago is ubu and signed Kunitsugu. The jigane is a coarse itame nagare hada. The hamon is a combustible storm of complex cloudlike nie formations, clashing with more restrained gunome. The Soshu-style hamon begins it’s journey up the blade as a fierce gunome notare-ba, but transitions to a calmer gunome ashi iri by the time it reaches the monouchi. The hamon is interspersed with complex hataraki like kinsuji and inazuma. The hamon finishes in a mostly maru boshi.

Along with high quality Edo period koshirae.