TACHI blade with two wide grooves along the mune... Lot 27

TACHI blade with two wide grooves along the mune to the end of the nakago, the hamon not legible, the nakago with a mekugi-ana, with a very faded signature, probably "Izumi no kami Fujiwara Kanesada saku", and a date, Eishô 9 (1512). (Soiling, traces of oxidation, scratches, kizu, small knocks on the cutting edge, particularly on the kissaki, whose point is blunt; damaged koshirae, most elements missing or late, scabbard not adapted). Japan, 16th century - 17th century. A TACHI, SIGNED KANESADA, JAPAN, 16TH-17TH CENTURY. LONG. 74.3 CM (29 1/4 IN.)