SUKESADA LINEAGE A Bizen Katana in Handachi Mounts Muromachi period (1336-1573), dated 1515 Honzukuri, iorimune, chū-gissaki, toriizori, forged in ko-itame hada with a flamboyant chōji and gunome midare tempered edge ending in a midare komi bōshi, both sides chiseled with bōhi, the machi okuri tang with two holes, katte sagari file marks, signed Bishū Osafune Sukesada, and dated Eishō jūninen rokugatsu no hi (A day in the sixth month of 1515), with a one-piece gilt-copper habaki; the 18th/19th-c