{"id":1138,"date":"2012-07-03T21:36:06","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T01:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2012-07-03T21:36:17","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T01:36:17","slug":"wakizashi-bishu-osafune-norimitsu-bizen-muromachi-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/?p=1138","title":{"rendered":"Wakizashi &#8211; Bishu Osafune Norimitsu &#8211; Bizen, Muromachi Period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a beautiful sword with a nice curve and a 22 inch cutting edge. The tang is uncut and contains the signature &#8221; Bishu Osafune Norimitsu &#8221; . It is in old \u00a0polish but very clean and displays all of the blades features well. The hamon has a lot of activity and the boshi shows a nice turn back. It is housed in a shirasaya with a nice copper habaki.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/?attachment_id=1139\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1139\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1139\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/?attachment_id=1139\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/norimitsu1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"850,637\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"norimitsu1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" 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data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"norimitsu11\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/norimitsu11-300x224.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/norimitsu11.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1144\" title=\"norimitsu11\" src=\"http:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/norimitsu11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/norimitsu11.jpg 850w, 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The tang is uncut and contains the signature &#8221; Bishu Osafune Norimitsu &#8221; . It is in old \u00a0polish but very clean and displays all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/?p=1138\">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-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese-swords"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Lbe7-im","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}