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A SHINSHINTO IWAKI (MUTSU) EDO KATO KATANA
EDO PERIOD, DATED 1863, SIGNED MUTSU SHIRAKAWA [NO] JU KATAYAMA MUNETOSHI
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and medium point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 2 shaku, 3 sun, 7 bu (72.1cm.); curvature (sori): koshi-zori of 1.7cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 1.1cm.
Forging pattern (jihada): dense 'pear-skin' (nashiji).
Tempering pattern (hamon): o-choji with extensive 'legs' (ashi) and yo in ko-nie, together with several tobiyaki 'pearls'.
Point (boshi):
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): regular and unshortened (ubu); file marks (yasurime): kesho; end (nakagojiri): iriyamagata; holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (katanamei): Mutsu Shirakawa [no] ju Katayama Munetoshi, dated Bunka 3 (1863), 2nd month.
Shirasaya.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 144694, Showa 43 (1968).
EDO PERIOD, DATED 1863, SIGNED MUTSU SHIRAKAWA [NO] JU KATAYAMA MUNETOSHI
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and medium point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 2 shaku, 3 sun, 7 bu (72.1cm.); curvature (sori): koshi-zori of 1.7cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 1.1cm.
Forging pattern (jihada): dense 'pear-skin' (nashiji).
Tempering pattern (hamon): o-choji with extensive 'legs' (ashi) and yo in ko-nie, together with several tobiyaki 'pearls'.
Point (boshi):
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): regular and unshortened (ubu); file marks (yasurime): kesho; end (nakagojiri): iriyamagata; holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (katanamei): Mutsu Shirakawa [no] ju Katayama Munetoshi, dated Bunka 3 (1863), 2nd month.
Shirasaya.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 144694, Showa 43 (1968).