细节
A Shin-Shinto Katana in Mounts
Late Edo period (19th century), signed Kurihara Kenji Nobuhide and dated Bunkyu ninen junigatsu hi (1862.12)
Sugata [configuration]: shinogi-zukuri, iori-mune, extended kissaki, torii-zori
Kitae [forging pattern]: itame with mokume in ji-nie and chikei
Hamon [tempering pattern]: gunome-midare combined with togari with nie, ashi, tobi-yaki, sunagashi and kinsuji
Boshi [tip]: togari, haki-kake
Horimono [carving]: omote: crisply carved dragon chasing a jewel contained within a bo-hi; ura: ken and futasu-bi separated by a bonji
Nakago [tang]: ubu with katte-sagari file marks and one hole
Nagasa [length from tip to beginning of tang]: 28¾in. (73cm.)
Motohaba [width at start of tempered edge]: 1 3/8in. (3.5cm.)
Sakihaba [width before tip]: 1in. (2.5cm.)
Habaki [collar]: single, gilt-copper
Koshirae [set of mounts]: brown-lacquer ribbed saya fitted with a silver and copper kojiri carved with swirling clouds, the tsuka wrapped in white hemp around black-lacquered ray-skin and fitted with iron and gold fuchi-gashira carved with insects in grasses, signed ......., and with a shakudo taka-zogan stag beetle on the kashira, gold menuki carved as mantis, and a rounded-rectangular iron tsuchime-ji tsuba pierced with a whorl and two udenuki-ana and inlaid with gold dots