Details
AN ISE SENGO TANTO
MID-NAMBOKUCHO PERIOD (CIRCA 1360), SIGNED MURAMASA
Configuration (sugata): hira-zukuri with tri-bevelled back (mitsu-mune); length (nagasa): 9 sun, 3 bu (28.4cm.); curvature (sori): almost none.
Forging pattern (jihada): an elegant masame mokume.
Tempering pattern (hamon): shallow notare.
Point (boshi): Jizo with long kaeri.
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): tanago-bara; file marks (yasurime): new (kiri-yasuri); end (nakagojiri): iriyamagata; holes (mekugi-ana): two; signature (mei): Muramasa.
Shirasaya with attestation by Sato Kanzan.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 38310, dated Showa 34 (1959).
MID-NAMBOKUCHO PERIOD (CIRCA 1360), SIGNED MURAMASA
Configuration (sugata): hira-zukuri with tri-bevelled back (mitsu-mune); length (nagasa): 9 sun, 3 bu (28.4cm.); curvature (sori): almost none.
Forging pattern (jihada): an elegant masame mokume.
Tempering pattern (hamon): shallow notare.
Point (boshi): Jizo with long kaeri.
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): tanago-bara; file marks (yasurime): new (kiri-yasuri); end (nakagojiri): iriyamagata; holes (mekugi-ana): two; signature (mei): Muramasa.
Shirasaya with attestation by Sato Kanzan.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 38310, dated Showa 34 (1959).
Literature
Journal of the Society for Appreciation and Preservation of Japanese Art Swords (Nihon bijutsu token hozon kyokai) (1959), col. 58, p. 42 lists this sword as, "Compton Collection Important Art Object Tanto Muramasa 0-9-3".