MEIJI
A SHINSHINTO BIZEN SUKENAGA SCHOOL TANTO
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A SHINSHINTO BIZEN SUKENAGA SCHOOL TANTO
MEIJI ERA, DATED 1889, SIGNED HOKI [NO] KUNI [NO] JU SUGAWARA KANENORI SAKU
Configuration (sugata): flat (hira-zukuri) with tri-bevelled back (mitsu-mune); length (nagasa): 8 sun, 5 bu (25.8cm.); carving (horimono): outside: Bishamon Hoko; inside: goma-bashi with tsume.
Forging pattern (jihada): striated wood grain (itame).
Tempering pattern (hamon): shallow toran.
Point (boshi): medium and rounded (chu-maru).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): Bizen type; file marks (yasurime): new (kiri-yasuri); end (nakagojiri): ha-agari kurijiri; holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (mei): Hoki [no] Kuni [no] ju Sugawara Kanenori saku, dated Meiji 22 (1889), 1st month, an auspicious day.
Shirasaya.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 5506072, dated Showa 55 (1980); and a koshu tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 20313, dated Showa 56 (1981).
MEIJI ERA, DATED 1889, SIGNED HOKI [NO] KUNI [NO] JU SUGAWARA KANENORI SAKU
Configuration (sugata): flat (hira-zukuri) with tri-bevelled back (mitsu-mune); length (nagasa): 8 sun, 5 bu (25.8cm.); carving (horimono): outside: Bishamon Hoko; inside: goma-bashi with tsume.
Forging pattern (jihada): striated wood grain (itame).
Tempering pattern (hamon): shallow toran.
Point (boshi): medium and rounded (chu-maru).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): Bizen type; file marks (yasurime): new (kiri-yasuri); end (nakagojiri): ha-agari kurijiri; holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (mei): Hoki [no] Kuni [no] ju Sugawara Kanenori saku, dated Meiji 22 (1889), 1st month, an auspicious day.
Shirasaya.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 5506072, dated Showa 55 (1980); and a koshu tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 20313, dated Showa 56 (1981).