A real great Japanese Samurai sword made by Minamoto Masaaki kore o seitan 竹村恒右衛門源正 精鍛之 1864

Japanese Samurai katana by Jokeishi Masaaki- Genji 1st year 8th month (1864AD August) 71.21cm O-boshi style with mihaba and masame hada with nice Deki Original late Edo traditional wear koshirae MASAKI (正明), Bunkyū (文久, 1861-1864), Musashi – “Sakuyō-shi Jōkeishi Masaaki” (作陽士城慶子正明), “Takemura Tsune´emon Minamoto Masaaki kore o seitan” (竹村恒右衛門源正 精鍛之, “carefully forged by Takemura Tsune´emon Minamoto Masaaki”), “Jōkeishi Masaaki” (城慶子正明), real name Takemura Tsunejirō (竹村恒次郎, the first name also reads Kōjirō), he was a student of Hosokawa Masayoshi (正義) and worked for the Tsuyama fief (津山藩) of Mimasaka province but from Edo where he ran his forge in the Fukagawa-Morishita district (深川森下町), his gō was Jōkeishi (城慶子), his strong point was the Bizen tradition, dense ko-itame with utsuri, gunome-chōji-midare in nioi-deki with many ashi and round yakigashira, but he also worked in the Sōshū tradition and hardened a notare with kinsuji and sunagashi with nie and a wide nioiguchi, he was one of the best students of Hosokawa Masayoshi, we know date signatures from the Kaei era (嘉永, 1848-1854) to the third year of Meiji (明治, 1870), he also signed his name Masaaki with the characters (正日 明 ), jō-saku