Offering a high quality gendaito by the famous swordsmith Takahashi Yoshimune. He was the brother the Gassan smith Takahashi Sadatsugu: the first Living National Treasure swordsmith. This blade is forged in an itame jihada with some flowing areas. The hamon is generally choji / juka-choji in the Bizen-den as it typical of his work. The blade is signed Minamoto Yoshimune and has an invocation of Hachiman Daibosatsu inscribed on the nakago as well. There is much activity, as shown in the photos below. The blade is in shirasaya with a sayagaki (unsigned). Bio per Markus Sesko below.
YOSHIMUNE (義宗), Shōwa (昭和, 1926-1989), Ōsaka – “Hachiman-Daibosatsu Minamoto Yoshimune saku” (八幡大菩薩源義宗作), “Minamoto Yoshimune” (源義宗), “Takahashi Yoshimune” (高橋義宗), real name Takahashi Yoshimune (高橋義宗), he was the younger brother of Takahashi Sadatsugu (高橋貞次) and came originally from Ehime Prefecture, from 1913 he studied under Yokoyama Sukesada (横山祐定) and learned in 1918 also from Henmi Yoshitaka (逸見義隆) and even later also from Enju Kunitoshi (延寿国歳), he died in 1946, his speciality was a gunome-chōji in the Bizen tradition, he also worked as rikugun-jumei-tōshō, shinpin no retsu (Akihide), Special Honor Seat at the 6th Shinsaku Nihontō Denrankai (新作日本刀展覧会, 1941)