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AN OSAKA IKKANSHI WAKIZASHI
EDO PERIOD, DATED 1700, SIGNED AWATAGUCHI OMI [NO] KAMI TADATSUNA, ATTRIBUTED TO TADATSUNA II
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and medium point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 1 shaku, 8 sun, 7 bu (56.7cm.); curvature (sori): koshi-zori of 1.4cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 1.0cm.
Forging pattern (jihada): a 'silver-dusted' Ikkanshi style itame.
Tempering pattern (hamon): wide ko-gonome with numerous ko-ashi, all rather jammed together (kozunda) and executed in nioi and ko-nie.
Point (boshi): medium and rounded (chu-maru).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): unshortened (ubu); file marks (yasurime): sujikai; end (nakagojiri): ha-agari kurijiri; holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (katanamei): Awataguchi Omi [no] Kami Tadatsuna, dated Genroku 13 (1700), 2nd month.
Shirasaya.
Accompanied by a futsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 144689, dated Showa 43 (1968).
EDO PERIOD, DATED 1700, SIGNED AWATAGUCHI OMI [NO] KAMI TADATSUNA, ATTRIBUTED TO TADATSUNA II
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and medium point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 1 shaku, 8 sun, 7 bu (56.7cm.); curvature (sori): koshi-zori of 1.4cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 1.0cm.
Forging pattern (jihada): a 'silver-dusted' Ikkanshi style itame.
Tempering pattern (hamon): wide ko-gonome with numerous ko-ashi, all rather jammed together (kozunda) and executed in nioi and ko-nie.
Point (boshi): medium and rounded (chu-maru).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): unshortened (ubu); file marks (yasurime): sujikai; end (nakagojiri): ha-agari kurijiri; holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (katanamei): Awataguchi Omi [no] Kami Tadatsuna, dated Genroku 13 (1700), 2nd month.
Shirasaya.
Accompanied by a futsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 144689, dated Showa 43 (1968).
Provenance
Col. Royal Gervais, Sarasota, Florida