GREAT GASSAN SADAKATSU NUMBER TWO!!! 

To Buy call:
(480) 982-5256 USA 

We have saved the best for last.  Sabaku Samurai's personal favorite sword smith of ALL TIME.  Sword maker to the EMPEROR OF JAPAN and Imperial Household. Regarded by many as THE FINEST sword smith of the twentieth century.  Expert in the Soshu and Bizen tradition of sword making and Master of the secret family tradition of ayasugi hada.  Sadakatsu is also ranked as one of the most skilled horimono artists of the twentieth century.  This sword has ALL the bells and whistles. It is forged in perfect, tight ayasugi hada.  Even though the Gassan's were known for ayasugi hada, works in this style are rare even for them.  It has beautiful crisp horimono in the form of a ken sword on one side and two short grooves (gomma hashi) on the other.  The back of the blade is the rare and distictive mitsumune.  If all of this were not enough, the blade tang is inscribed that it was made of special steel left over from making the heirloom treasure sword of the Kimura family that is named "Cloud Dragon"!!  HOW COOL IS THAT!!??  The blade is in top quality polish and shirasaya.
TWO! sets of NBTHK evaluation/authentication papers, Hozon and Tokubetsu Hozon
Blade length is 27 1/2 inches
Signed; "Naniwa ju 3rd generation Gassan Sadakatsu (kao)
Dated 1937
  If you are interested in this sword email wpgseton@hotmail.com or call (480) 982-5256 USA