Original 18th Century Edo Period Japanese Handmade Wakizashi Short Sword by NAOSADA with Kogatana Knife and Scabbard

Original Item: Only One Available. Wakizashi (脇差 "side inserted / companion sword") is a general term for a sword with an edge between one and two shaku long (30 cm and 60 cm), predominantly made after 1600. Generally it is the short blade that accompanies a katana in the traditional samurai daisho pairing of swords, but may be worn by classes other than the samurai as a single blade, also worn edge up as the katana. Here we have a wonderful example in excellent polish, which was probably refit later in the Edo period, and comes complete "en suite" with matched fittings and a kogatana knife. This very nice example dates from the Edo period (江戸時代, Edo jidai) or Tokugawa period (徳川時代, Tokugawa jidai) of Japanese history. This is the period between 1603 and 1867, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyo. This example is around the middle of the length that Wakizashi are made in, so though it does have the the "Shinogi-Zukuri" shape like