For anyone looking for a really top flight Soshu-den blade, this is a highly active wakizashi by Iwami Sadatsuna (son of the Masamune student Naotsuna). With current NBTHK kanteisho.
SADATSUNA (貞綱), Shōhei (正平, 1346-1370), Iwami – “Sadatsuna” (貞綱), “Izuha Sadatsuna saku”
(出羽貞綱作), “Sekishū Izuha Sadatsuna saku” (石州出羽貞綱作), according to tradition the son of Sekishū Naotsuna (直綱), he lived in Iwami´s Takatsu (高津), we know date signatures from the Shōhei and Bunna era (文和, 1352-1356), there are tachi and tantō extant, they have a wide mihaba and a mitsu-mune, the jigane is a ko-itame with ji-nie, the hamon is a nie-laden suguha mixed with ko-notare and/or ko-gunome, the bōshi is sugu or a notare-komi with a wide kaeri, also yubashiri can appear along the kaeri, jō-saku
$8,750.00