{"id":462,"date":"2012-01-18T13:22:14","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T18:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/?p=462"},"modified":"2014-07-04T17:36:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T21:36:54","slug":"katana-mumei-bizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/?p=462","title":{"rendered":"Katana &#8211; Mumei &#8211; Bizen &#8211; Eisho period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a beautifully tempered blade with a Gunome-midare hamon with a lot of activity and is o-suriage ( cut down ) to 26 &amp; 3\/8 inches along the cutting edge. It is housed in a maroon speckled saya with black kanji characters, a sukashi tsuba with zig zag geometric design. Black silk wrapped handle, crane menuki, brass fuchi &amp; kashira and a silver habaki. \u00a0This sword probably dates to the Eisho period ( 1500&#8217;s ).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSCN0113.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1819\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/?attachment_id=1819\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSCN0113.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"[]\" data-image-title=\"DSCN0113\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSCN0113.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSCN0113.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1819\" src=\"http:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSCN0113.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN0113\" \/><\/a> <a 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