Details
A SHINSHINTO MUSASHI TANTO
EDO PERIOD, DATED 1862, SIGNED KURIHARA KENSHI NOBUHIDE
Configuration (sugata): flat (hira-zukuri) with shallow peaked back (iori-mune); length (nagasa): 1 shaku, 1 sun (33.3cm); curvature (sori): very slight; carving (horimono): outside: dragon; inside: flowering plum.
Forging pattern (jihada): dense wood grain (itame).
Tempering pattern (hamon): undulations (gonome) in ko-nie with 'swept sands' (sunagashi) and kinsuji.
Point (boshi): midare-kome with long kaeri.
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): wide, stubby and unshortened (ubu); file marks (yasurime): sujikai; end (nakagojiri): rounded (kurijiri); holes (mekugi-ana): two; signature (mei): Kurihara Kenshi Nobuhide, dated Bunkyu 2 (1862), 2nd month.
Shirasaya.
Aikuchi-koshirae, late Edo/early Meiji period, comprising: a saya made to resemble a branch of wood in black lacquer with sparse gold nashiji mounted with fittings carved and worked in high relief in the form of monkeys and peaches with gold and copper highlights; a pair of menuki signed Kiyotsugu; a fuchi signed Tobu oite (while in Edo) Seiseien Hen Kiyotsugu kore[o] tsukuru (fl. circa 1700).-- Length of koshirae 48.7cm.; length of tsuka 12.3cm.; length of kozuka 8.5cm. Small chip to the lacquer.
Wood storage box. Brocade and silk storage bags.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 66504, dated Showa 37 (1962).
EDO PERIOD, DATED 1862, SIGNED KURIHARA KENSHI NOBUHIDE
Configuration (sugata): flat (hira-zukuri) with shallow peaked back (iori-mune); length (nagasa): 1 shaku, 1 sun (33.3cm); curvature (sori): very slight; carving (horimono): outside: dragon; inside: flowering plum.
Forging pattern (jihada): dense wood grain (itame).
Tempering pattern (hamon): undulations (gonome) in ko-nie with 'swept sands' (sunagashi) and kinsuji.
Point (boshi): midare-kome with long kaeri.
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): wide, stubby and unshortened (ubu); file marks (yasurime): sujikai; end (nakagojiri): rounded (kurijiri); holes (mekugi-ana): two; signature (mei): Kurihara Kenshi Nobuhide, dated Bunkyu 2 (1862), 2nd month.
Shirasaya.
Aikuchi-koshirae, late Edo/early Meiji period, comprising: a saya made to resemble a branch of wood in black lacquer with sparse gold nashiji mounted with fittings carved and worked in high relief in the form of monkeys and peaches with gold and copper highlights; a pair of menuki signed Kiyotsugu; a fuchi signed Tobu oite (while in Edo) Seiseien Hen Kiyotsugu kore[o] tsukuru (fl. circa 1700).-- Length of koshirae 48.7cm.; length of tsuka 12.3cm.; length of kozuka 8.5cm. Small chip to the lacquer.
Wood storage box. Brocade and silk storage bags.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 66504, dated Showa 37 (1962).
Provenance
Fairclough, London