{"id":1704,"date":"2014-06-11T15:19:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T19:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/?p=1704"},"modified":"2014-07-18T12:50:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T16:50:14","slug":"katana-yokoyama-kozuke-daijo-fujiwara-sukesada-1661","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/?p=1704","title":{"rendered":"Wakizashi &#8211; Yokoyama Kozuke Daij\u014d Fujiwara Sukesada &#8211; 1661"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This sword is absolutely beautiful, in full polish and displaying a large, wide Gunome temper line. It is mounted in Shirasaya with\u00a0sayagaki. It has a 21 inch blade and an ubu \u00a0nakago, signed on both sides;\u00a0Yokoyama Kozuke Daij\u014d Fujiwara Sukesada. Translation;\u00a0Sword made by the smith Sukesada from the\u00a0Fujiwara clan with the title of Kozuke Daij\u014d\u00a0from Yokoyama. \u00a0The other side reads;\u00a0Bishu Osafune ju .\u00a0The Blade was made by the smith while living (ju) in the town of Osafune in the province of Bizen (Bishu).<a href=\"http:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DSCN0026.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1728\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/?attachment_id=1728\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DSCN0026.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"[]\" data-image-title=\"DSCN0026\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DSCN0026.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DSCN0026.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full 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It is mounted in Shirasaya with\u00a0sayagaki. It has a 21 inch blade and an ubu \u00a0nakago, signed on both sides;\u00a0Yokoyama Kozuke Daij\u014d Fujiwara Sukesada. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/?p=1704\">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-1704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese-swords"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Lbe7-ru","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704","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=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1998,"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions\/1998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}