Lot Essay
The Kongo Byoe school appeared at about the same time as the Sa school. Tentative dating for Sadamori can be made on the basis of a a very few blades bearing a Shohei date (1346-1369).
CHIKUZEN--KONGO BYOE
A CHIKUZEN KONGO BYOE TACHI
Details
A CHIKUZEN KONGO BYOE TACHI
MID-NAMBOKUCHO PERIOD (CIRCA 1350-1370), ATTRIBUTED TO REIZEN SADAMORI
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and medium size point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 2 shaku, 2 sun, 5.5 bu (68.1 cm.); curvature (sori): koshi-zori of 1.9 cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 0.9 cm.
Forging pattern (jihada): wood grain (itame) intermixed with masame and some mokume and with some scattered ji-nie. Tempering pattern (hamon): extremely narrow suguba (hososuguba).
Point (boshi): small rounded (ko-maru).
Tang (nakago). shape (keitai): o-suriage; file marks (yasurime): slanted (katte-sagari); end (nakagojiri): rounded (kuri-jiri); holes (mekugi-ana): one (also remnant of one on jiri); signature (mei): unsigned (mumei).
In shirasaya with attestation by Homma Junji .
Accompanied by a juyo token certificate, no. 6879, Showa 55 (1980), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.
MID-NAMBOKUCHO PERIOD (CIRCA 1350-1370), ATTRIBUTED TO REIZEN SADAMORI
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and medium size point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 2 shaku, 2 sun, 5.5 bu (68.1 cm.); curvature (sori): koshi-zori of 1.9 cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 0.9 cm.
Forging pattern (jihada): wood grain (itame) intermixed with masame and some mokume and with some scattered ji-nie. Tempering pattern (hamon): extremely narrow suguba (hososuguba).
Point (boshi): small rounded (ko-maru).
Tang (nakago). shape (keitai): o-suriage; file marks (yasurime): slanted (katte-sagari); end (nakagojiri): rounded (kuri-jiri); holes (mekugi-ana): one (also remnant of one on jiri); signature (mei): unsigned (mumei).
In shirasaya with attestation by Homma Junji .
Accompanied by a juyo token certificate, no. 6879, Showa 55 (1980), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.
Literature
N.B.T.H.K., Juyo token to zufu, vol. 27.
One Hundred Masterpieces (1992), no. 32.
One Hundred Masterpieces (1992), no. 32.