Details
A SHINSHINTO EDO SUISHINSHI KATANA
EDO PERIOD, DATED BUNSEI 11 (1828), SIGNED DEWA (NO) KAMI SHONAI (NO) JU IKEDA KAZUHIDE NYUDO RYUKEN
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune)
and medium point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 2 shaku, 2 sun, 4 bu (68cm.); curvature (sori): koshi-zori of l.7cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 0.7cm.
Forging pattern (jihada): dense pear skin pattern nashiji.
Tempering pattern (hamon): choji midare/ko-gonome in a Kotetsu fashion.
Point (boshi): ko-maru with medium kaeri.
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): slender and ubu; file marks (yasurime): kesho-yasuri; end (nakagojiri): rounded (kuri-jiri); holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (katana-mei): Dewa (no) Kami Shonai (no) ju Ikeda Kazuhide Nyudo Ryuken; date (jidai): Bunsei 11-nen 2-gatsu hi (a day in the 2nd month of Bunsei 11 [1828]).
EDO PERIOD, DATED BUNSEI 11 (1828), SIGNED DEWA (NO) KAMI SHONAI (NO) JU IKEDA KAZUHIDE NYUDO RYUKEN
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune)
and medium point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 2 shaku, 2 sun, 4 bu (68cm.); curvature (sori): koshi-zori of l.7cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 0.7cm.
Forging pattern (jihada): dense pear skin pattern nashiji.
Tempering pattern (hamon): choji midare/ko-gonome in a Kotetsu fashion.
Point (boshi): ko-maru with medium kaeri.
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): slender and ubu; file marks (yasurime): kesho-yasuri; end (nakagojiri): rounded (kuri-jiri); holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (katana-mei): Dewa (no) Kami Shonai (no) ju Ikeda Kazuhide Nyudo Ryuken; date (jidai): Bunsei 11-nen 2-gatsu hi (a day in the 2nd month of Bunsei 11 [1828]).
Provenance
Christie's, London, 3 March 1969, lot 100.