Naoe Shizu Kanenaga 兼長Taichi 美濃伝 南北朝末期～応永

Naoe Shizu Kanenaga 兼長Taichi 美濃伝 南北朝末期～応永

This is mt first serious Nihonto. After my first unpleasant experience, I have learnt to be careful with purchase. It is a Naoe Shizu Kanenaga's sword, a very rare item in the world according to the Japanese dealer. Naoe Shizu school is very famous school. However many books make an article, but there are not many sword of Naoe Shizu school. 

This Kanenaga have a NBTHK Tokubetsu Hzon certificate paper. This kanenaga is not normaly Mino school and It's special order sword.

Cutting edge : 70.5cm

Sori: 1.8cm

Jigane: Strong Itami-Hada and Masame-hada

Hamon: Suguha and Ko-gunome with Ko-Nie

Boshi: Sugu-Komaru nijyuha gokoro

Signature: Kanenaga 

Koshirae: Shirasaya

This rare Tachi by Naoe Shizu Kanenaga and has a length of 70.5cm and a lovely curvature. It dates back 650 years to a significant time in Japanese history called the Nambokrcho period – also known as the Northern and Southern Courts period. During this era, there existed a Northern Imperial Court in Kyoto, and a Southern Imperial Court in Nara. Ideologically, the two courts fought bitterly for fifty years, with the South giving up to the North in 1392.

I have been adviced by an experience collector Ben Chua from Singapore that this is a tachi as the Tachi- name is on the right hand side and katana is on the left of the cutting edge. The good thing about life is you learn new things everyday.