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A LATER BIZEN YOKOYAMA KATANA
EDO PERIOD, DATED 1675, SIGNED BISHU OSAFUNE [NO] JU YOKOYAMA KOZUKE DAIJO FUJIWARA SUKESADA
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and medium point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 2 shaku, 4 sun, 4 bu (74.2cm.); curvature (sori): koshi-zori of 2.7cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 1.2cm.
Forging pattern (jihada): mokume.
Tempering pattern (hamon): gonome choji.
Point (boshi): chu-maru with ko-kaeri.
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): wide Bizen; file marks (yasurime): slanted katte-sagari; end (nakagojiri): ha-agari kurijiri; holes (mekugi-ana): two (one being a shinobi-ana); signature (katanamei): Bishu Osafune [no] ju Yokoyama Kozuke Daijo Fujiwara Sukesada, dated Enpo 3 (1675) 8th month, an auspicious day.
Shirasaya.
EDO PERIOD, DATED 1675, SIGNED BISHU OSAFUNE [NO] JU YOKOYAMA KOZUKE DAIJO FUJIWARA SUKESADA
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and medium point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 2 shaku, 4 sun, 4 bu (74.2cm.); curvature (sori): koshi-zori of 2.7cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 1.2cm.
Forging pattern (jihada): mokume.
Tempering pattern (hamon): gonome choji.
Point (boshi): chu-maru with ko-kaeri.
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): wide Bizen; file marks (yasurime): slanted katte-sagari; end (nakagojiri): ha-agari kurijiri; holes (mekugi-ana): two (one being a shinobi-ana); signature (katanamei): Bishu Osafune [no] ju Yokoyama Kozuke Daijo Fujiwara Sukesada, dated Enpo 3 (1675) 8th month, an auspicious day.
Shirasaya.
Provenance
Fairclough, London.