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Sue Kashu yari

Nakago - ubu
Nagasa - 22.8 cm
Moto-haba - 2.1 cm
Certification - Fujishiro kanteisho

This is a very fine early muromachi yari which is papered to the Kashu (Kaga Aoe) school . The configuration is hirasankaku (three sided) with an extended kerakubi as one will find on earlier yari. The hamon is a suguha-based notare in nie with kinsuji. The jihada is predominantly masame. The boshi is komaru nagaku kaeru. On one side is a horimono executed as a bohi ending in kakudome

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