{"id":453,"date":"2012-01-17T15:08:39","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T20:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/?p=453"},"modified":"2014-07-04T20:59:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T00:59:31","slug":"katana-kuni-yamato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/?p=453","title":{"rendered":"Katana &#8211; ? Kuni &#8211; Yamato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a Naginata style blade mounted in Russo-Japanese mounts with a family Mon of crossed hawk feathers on the top of the hilt. The tang has Gold lacquered characters on both sides, called &#8221; Kinpun Mei &#8220;. These signatures were often done by the Hon&#8217;ami\u00a0 appraisers, Ringa &amp; Kosan. The name has one character that is rubbed enough that I can not make it out. The second character is &#8221; Kuni &#8220;, the other two on the reverse side signify &#8221; Yamato &#8220;. \u00a0 The blade length was shortened considerably and is now 24 inches along the cutting edge. The hamon is midare, \u00a0long waves and is in perfect polish. It also has horimono consisting of 3 &amp; 1\/2 inch grooves ( Koshi-Hi, Maru-Dome ) and a nice silver habaki. 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The tang has Gold lacquered characters on both sides, called &#8221; Kinpun Mei &#8220;. These signatures &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/?p=453\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese-swords"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Lbe7-7j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1916,"href":"http:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/1916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}