AN ECHIZEN SHIMOSAKA OMI YARI

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AN ECHIZEN SHIMOSAKA OMI YARI
EDO PERIOD, DATED KAN-EI 5 (1628), SIGNED NI OITE ECHIZEN TOYOHARA--HYUGA DAIJO FUJIWARA SADATSUGU

Configuration (sugata): yari; length (nagasa): 3 shaku, 0 sun, 4 bu (91.6cm.); carving (horimono): outside (omote): bo-hi.
Forging pattern (jihada): straight wood grain (masame).
Tempering pattern (hamon): wide tempering with some irregular waves (suguba notare) in nioi and good nie and on both sides are large spots of faint tempering (hitatsura) in the forged area.
Point (boshi): small rounded (ko-maru).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): long (87.7cm.), tapering, of rectangular section and ubu; file marks (yasurime): kiri-yasuri; end (nakagojiri): squared (kiri-jiri); holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (mei): ni oite Echizen Toyohara--Hyuga Daijo Fujiwara Sadatsugu; date (jidai): Kan-ei 5-nen 8-gatsu hi--nijup'pon no uchi (a day in the 8th month of Kan-ei 8 [1628], one of a group of twenty.

Shirasaya.

Cotton storage bag.

Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate, no. 144699, Showa 43 (1968), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.

Provenance

Waldhorn & Co., New Orleans

Literature

Mino and Robinson (1983), no. 8.
Compton, Homma, Sato, Ogawa (1976), no. 41.

Lot Essay

Sadatsugu was a student of Yasutsugu and two of his honorific titles included Hyuga (no) Kami and Hyuga Daijo. The inscription below the date states that this piece is one of twenty which he made that year in Toyohara.

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