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A LATER SOSHU WAKIZASHI
MUROMACHI PERIOD (16TH CENTURY), SIGNED SOSHU (NO) JU HIROYOSHI
Sugata: hira-zukuri with iori-mune and bo-hi on either side; nagasa: 1 shaku, 2 sun, 5 bu, 7 rin. (38.1cm.). Jihada: itame. Hamon: gunome, mainly in nioi. Boshi: Jizo. Nakago: Soshu furisode with a dry, brown patina; yasurime: sujikai; nakagojiri: kuri-jiri; mekugi-ana: two; katana-mei: Soshu (no) ju Hiroyoshi (slightly rubbed).
Wakizashi-goshirae: aogai saya (cracks and chips); matching shakudo mounts, probably Mito School, early 19th century, unsigned: mokko tsuba, kozuka, kogai, fuchi-kashira, kojiri, koiguchi (kurikata, uragawara, menuki missing) decorated with applied gold dragons amidst carved clouds, the tsuba with ho-o and kiri
MUROMACHI PERIOD (16TH CENTURY), SIGNED SOSHU (NO) JU HIROYOSHI
Sugata: hira-zukuri with iori-mune and bo-hi on either side; nagasa: 1 shaku, 2 sun, 5 bu, 7 rin. (38.1cm.). Jihada: itame. Hamon: gunome, mainly in nioi. Boshi: Jizo. Nakago: Soshu furisode with a dry, brown patina; yasurime: sujikai; nakagojiri: kuri-jiri; mekugi-ana: two; katana-mei: Soshu (no) ju Hiroyoshi (slightly rubbed).
Wakizashi-goshirae: aogai saya (cracks and chips); matching shakudo mounts, probably Mito School, early 19th century, unsigned: mokko tsuba, kozuka, kogai, fuchi-kashira, kojiri, koiguchi (kurikata, uragawara, menuki missing) decorated with applied gold dragons amidst carved clouds, the tsuba with ho-o and kiri