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A SHINSHINTO MUSASHI WAKIZASHI
LATE EDO PERIOD, DATED 1854, SIGNED RYUJOSHIN ISOYA YOSHITATSU SAKU
Sugata: hira-zukuri with iori-mune; nagasa: 1 shaku, 1 sun, 9 bu (36.1 cm.); zori: 0.3 cm.; horimono: (ura):
bonji ni goma-bashi; (omote): bonji ni gyo-no-kurikara. Jihada: mokume nie-deki. Hamon: gonome midare in nioi and extensive nie, the exhuberant tempering is scattered
with areas of sunagashi and some tobiyaki, particularly in the blade's midsection. Boshi: sunagashi giving the general appearance of hakikake, but turning back upon itself to form the long kaeri. Nakago: wide, slightly curved, ubu and with a dry, thin, brown patina; yasurime: kesho; nakagojiri: angular kuri-jiri; mekugi-ana: one; mei: katana-mei, Ryujoshin Isoya Yoshitatsu saku; jidai: Ka-ei 7-nen 8-gatsu hi hiri do saku. Shirasaya
Handachi-goshirae: ochre and gilt lacquered saya resembling leather; full iron handachi mounts decorated with silver hon-zogan archaic dragons, unsigned, diameter of tsuba 7.0 cm; iron kozuka molded with clouds and decorated in gold and silver nunome, unsigned. Cloth storage bag.
LATE EDO PERIOD, DATED 1854, SIGNED RYUJOSHIN ISOYA YOSHITATSU SAKU
Sugata: hira-zukuri with iori-mune; nagasa: 1 shaku, 1 sun, 9 bu (36.1 cm.); zori: 0.3 cm.; horimono: (ura):
bonji ni goma-bashi; (omote): bonji ni gyo-no-kurikara. Jihada: mokume nie-deki. Hamon: gonome midare in nioi and extensive nie, the exhuberant tempering is scattered
with areas of sunagashi and some tobiyaki, particularly in the blade's midsection. Boshi: sunagashi giving the general appearance of hakikake, but turning back upon itself to form the long kaeri. Nakago: wide, slightly curved, ubu and with a dry, thin, brown patina; yasurime: kesho; nakagojiri: angular kuri-jiri; mekugi-ana: one; mei: katana-mei, Ryujoshin Isoya Yoshitatsu saku; jidai: Ka-ei 7-nen 8-gatsu hi hiri do saku. Shirasaya
Handachi-goshirae: ochre and gilt lacquered saya resembling leather; full iron handachi mounts decorated with silver hon-zogan archaic dragons, unsigned, diameter of tsuba 7.0 cm; iron kozuka molded with clouds and decorated in gold and silver nunome, unsigned. Cloth storage bag.