Details
A KII ISHIDO KATANA
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1660), SIGNED KII (NO) KUNI YASUTSUNA
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and medium point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 2 shaku, 1 sun, 8 bu (66.2cm.); curvature (sori): koshi-zori of 1.1cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 1.0cm.
Forging pattern (jihada): strongly-grained burl (o-mokume) with straight grain (masame) in the shinogi-ji.
Tempering pattern (hamon): large irregular formations (o-midare) with some fist-shaped clove patterns (kobushigata choji) in nie.
Point (boshi): small pointed (ko-maru).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): inside (ura): wide and suriage approximately 5cm.; file marks (yasurime): sloping (sujikai); end (nakagojiri): squared (kiri-jiri); holes (mekugi-ana): two; signature (katanamei): Kii (no) Kuni Yasutsuna.
Shirasaya.
Silk storage bag.
Accompanied by a futsu kicho token certificate, no. 144696, Showa 43 (1968), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1660), SIGNED KII (NO) KUNI YASUTSUNA
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and medium point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 2 shaku, 1 sun, 8 bu (66.2cm.); curvature (sori): koshi-zori of 1.1cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 1.0cm.
Forging pattern (jihada): strongly-grained burl (o-mokume) with straight grain (masame) in the shinogi-ji.
Tempering pattern (hamon): large irregular formations (o-midare) with some fist-shaped clove patterns (kobushigata choji) in nie.
Point (boshi): small pointed (ko-maru).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): inside (ura): wide and suriage approximately 5cm.; file marks (yasurime): sloping (sujikai); end (nakagojiri): squared (kiri-jiri); holes (mekugi-ana): two; signature (katanamei): Kii (no) Kuni Yasutsuna.
Shirasaya.
Silk storage bag.
Accompanied by a futsu kicho token certificate, no. 144696, Showa 43 (1968), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.
Provenance
Masakata Katayama, New York
Literature
Compare Fujishiro, vol. 2, p. 288.