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HIZEN STYLE KO-WAKIZASHI IN MOUNTS BY TAMAGAWA KAZUAKI
EARLY EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY), GIMEI, HIZEN (NO) KUNI SAGA (NO) JU MASAHIRO
Sugata: ohira-zukuri with iori-mune; nagasa: 1 shaku, 3 sun, 1 bu (39.7cm.). Jihada: (ura): itame masame; (omote): itame. Hamon: gunome midare in nie and nioi with extensive sunagashi with some kinsuji and inazumi. Boshi: Jizo. Nakago: slightly curved and strongly tapering, ubu and with a semi-moist, brown patina; yasurime: o-sujikai; nakagojiri: kengyo; mekugi-ana: one; mei: gimei Hizen (no) Kuni Saga (no) ju Masahiro.
Ko-wakizashi-koshirae: ishime saya lacquered in silver and gold hiramaki-e with cranes in flight; nadekakugata tsuba of iron, carved with rain and applied with copper and gold chidori, signed Kazuaki, 5.7cm. high; shakudo nanako menuki with geese in flight against a moon; remaining mounts (kozuka, kurikata, koiguchi, kojiri, fuchi-kashira) in dark shibuichi and applied with birds; kojiri signed Kazuaki, kurikata signed Tosho Kazuaki and kao; fuchi signed Kazuaki and kao; kozuka signed Kazuaki saku
EARLY EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY), GIMEI, HIZEN (NO) KUNI SAGA (NO) JU MASAHIRO
Sugata: ohira-zukuri with iori-mune; nagasa: 1 shaku, 3 sun, 1 bu (39.7cm.). Jihada: (ura): itame masame; (omote): itame. Hamon: gunome midare in nie and nioi with extensive sunagashi with some kinsuji and inazumi. Boshi: Jizo. Nakago: slightly curved and strongly tapering, ubu and with a semi-moist, brown patina; yasurime: o-sujikai; nakagojiri: kengyo; mekugi-ana: one; mei: gimei Hizen (no) Kuni Saga (no) ju Masahiro.
Ko-wakizashi-koshirae: ishime saya lacquered in silver and gold hiramaki-e with cranes in flight; nadekakugata tsuba of iron, carved with rain and applied with copper and gold chidori, signed Kazuaki, 5.7cm. high; shakudo nanako menuki with geese in flight against a moon; remaining mounts (kozuka, kurikata, koiguchi, kojiri, fuchi-kashira) in dark shibuichi and applied with birds; kojiri signed Kazuaki, kurikata signed Tosho Kazuaki and kao; fuchi signed Kazuaki and kao; kozuka signed Kazuaki saku