{"id":2199,"date":"2017-04-07T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/?p=2199"},"modified":"2017-05-20T09:07:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T13:07:13","slug":"wakizashi-signed-masatsugu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/?p=2199","title":{"rendered":"WAKIZASHI &#8211; SIGNED MASATSUGU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a signed Wakizashi with the two character signature of &#8221; Masatsugu &#8220;. This is attributed to Ko-Bizen Masatsugu of the Masatsune school. It dates to the Nanbokucho era ( 1336-1392 ) and has a beautiful wavy hamon with much activity and a carving on the left side of the blade . The blade measures 20.7 inches along the cutting edge with an overall length of 29.92 inches and a sori of .55 inches.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2201\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/?attachment_id=2201\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/s-l1600-6.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1600,1600\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"s-l1600 (6)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" 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This is attributed to Ko-Bizen Masatsugu of the Masatsune school. It dates to the Nanbokucho era ( 1336-1392 ) and has a beautiful wavy hamon with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/?p=2199\">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-2199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese-swords"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Lbe7-zt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199","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=2199"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2229,"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions\/2229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}