A wakizashi | Signed Soshu ju Ise Daijo Tsunahiro do Tsunayuki saku yorite Kagotani Takateru nozomu saku (Ise Daijo Tsunahiro and Tsunayuki made this sword at the request of Kagotani Takateru) | Edo period, dated Empo nana tsuchinoto hitsuji nigatsu kichijitsu (an auspicious day in the second month, 7th Earth Goat year of 1679)

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A wakizashi

Signed Soshu ju Ise Daijo Tsunahiro do Tsunayuki saku yorite Kagotani Takateru nozomu saku (Ise Daijo Tsunahiro and Tsunayuki made this sword at the request of Kagotani Takateru)

Edo period, dated Empo nana tsuchinoto hitsuji nigatsu kichijitsu (an auspicious day in the second month, 7^th Earth Goat year of 1679)

Sugata [configuration]: Shinogi zukuri, o-kissaki, tori zori, chu-kissaki

Kitae [forging pattern]: Itame hada

Hamon [tempering pattern]: Broad suguha from the hamachi, becoming broader notare

Boshi [tip]: Yakitsume 

Horimono [carvings]: One wide hi on both sides above the shinogi

Nakago [tang]: Iriyamagata, one mekugi-ana, signed on the omote Soshu ju Ise Daijo Tsunahiro do Tsunayuki saku yorite Kagotani Takateru nozomu saku (Ise Daijo Tsunahiro and Tsunayuki made this sword at the request of Kagotani Takateru), inscribed on the ura Empo nana tsuchinoto hitsuji nigatsu kichijitsu (an auspicious day in the second month, 7^th Earth Goat year of the Empo era [equivalent to 1679])

Habaki [collar]: Silver, single clad

In shirasaya [plain wood scabbard]

Nagasa [length from kissaki to machi]: 49.7 cm., 19⅝ in. 

Sori [curvature]: 1.5 cm., ⅝ in. 

Saki-haba [width at the yokote]: 2.2 cm., ⅞ in. 

Moto-haba [width at the machi]: 3.2 cm., ¼ in.