An exceptionally Katana. It is so attractiv because of its elegance, its slim and simple appearance, the suguha hamon at the first sight, which is a soroi gonome midareha hamon actually, its longieness of more than 73cm, the year of forging ( 1456 ) with mei and just slightly shortened. The appearance of the hole Katana is very strong and we gave the nickname ” Sword of the Elfes”. This name may help the viewer to understand the feeling while looking at it. The condition is very good. The very nice Koshirae is done Handachi stile. The inscription “Kyotoku 5 nen” contains a little mistake, sometimes swordsmithes in the provinces did ( which is written down in the certificate of the JTK ), because Kyotoku just had 4 nen.
Nevertheless it is a beautiful sword in itame stile forged, shinogizukuri iorimune.
Nagasa: 73,4 cm, sori: 1.1 cm with 2 mekugiana, sukoshi suriage
Inscription: Bizen Kuni ju Yoshii Kiyonori & Kyotoku 5 nen 8 gatsu