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14A SUO NIO KIYOTSUGU KATANA
MUROMACHI PERIOD (FIRST HALF 16TH CENTURY), SIGNED KIYOTSUGU
Sugata: shinogi-zukuri with iori-mune and long chu-kissaki [slightly ground]; nagasa: 2 shaku, 5 bu, 6 rin (62.3cm.); torii-zori of 2.0cm.; motohaba: 3.1cm; sakihaba: 2.1cm.; atobori [later carved] horimono (ura): katana-hi ni ryu. Jihada: koitame with some mokume. Hamon: saiha [retempered], medium suguha in nioi. Boshi: hakikake [kissaki ground down]. Nakago: slender, tapering and with a moist, brown patina; yasurime: katte-sagari; nakagojiri: kuri-jiri; mekugi-ana: one; mei: katana-mei, Kiyotsugu.
Uchigatana-goshirae: roiro saya [relacquered]; iron Shonai mokko tsuba with a figure of Ku Liang-jen and his tiger, unsigned, height 8.6cm.; black-wrapped tsuka with yamagane menuki and a pair of shibuichi ishime fuchi-kashira applied with silver Manchurian cranes, unsigned. Silk brocade storage bag.
Accompanied by a kanteisho, no. 7447, dated Showa 59 (1984), issued by the N.T.H.K.
MUROMACHI PERIOD (FIRST HALF 16TH CENTURY), SIGNED KIYOTSUGU
Sugata: shinogi-zukuri with iori-mune and long chu-kissaki [slightly ground]; nagasa: 2 shaku, 5 bu, 6 rin (62.3cm.); torii-zori of 2.0cm.; motohaba: 3.1cm; sakihaba: 2.1cm.; atobori [later carved] horimono (ura): katana-hi ni ryu. Jihada: koitame with some mokume. Hamon: saiha [retempered], medium suguha in nioi. Boshi: hakikake [kissaki ground down]. Nakago: slender, tapering and with a moist, brown patina; yasurime: katte-sagari; nakagojiri: kuri-jiri; mekugi-ana: one; mei: katana-mei, Kiyotsugu.
Uchigatana-goshirae: roiro saya [relacquered]; iron Shonai mokko tsuba with a figure of Ku Liang-jen and his tiger, unsigned, height 8.6cm.; black-wrapped tsuka with yamagane menuki and a pair of shibuichi ishime fuchi-kashira applied with silver Manchurian cranes, unsigned. Silk brocade storage bag.
Accompanied by a kanteisho, no. 7447, dated Showa 59 (1984), issued by the N.T.H.K.