Details
AN OSAKA KATANA
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1660), SIGNED KAWACHI (NO) KAMI KUNISUKE
Sugata: shinogi-zukuri, iori-mune and chu-kissaki; nagasa: 2 shaku, 1 sun, 5 bu (65.2cm.); sori: shallow koshi-zori of 1.2cm.; fumbari: 1.0cm. Jihada: dense ko-itame. Hamon: o-choji springing from yakidashi on both sides and developing in width approaching the monouchi where the tempering pattern displays vigorous inazuma and sunagashi in expansive nie and o-nie. Boshi: hakikake with long turn-back.
Nakago, keitai: regular and slightly suriage; yasurime: o-sujikai; nakagojiri: ha-agari kuri-jiri; mekugi-ana: two; katana-mei: Kawachi (no) Kami Kunisuke. Shirasaya.
Sendai-mounted koshirae: a vermillion lacquered saya with diagonally applied black lacquer at the end, applied with an iron omeshi kojiri decorated with silver and gilt paulownia and foliage; a tsuka mounted with a pair of shakudo Goto style menuki formed as shishi and an iron fuchi-kashira similarly decorated with paulownia and foliage; an iron Shoami school tsuba decorated in silver and gold nunome with cherry blossoms and wheels, the ryo-hitsu shaped as Genjimon, height 8.6cm., width 9.1cm., thickness 6mm. Brocade and silk storage bags.
Accompanied by a Tokubetsu kicho ninteisho, no. 5504859, dated Showa 55 (1980), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1660), SIGNED KAWACHI (NO) KAMI KUNISUKE
Sugata: shinogi-zukuri, iori-mune and chu-kissaki; nagasa: 2 shaku, 1 sun, 5 bu (65.2cm.); sori: shallow koshi-zori of 1.2cm.; fumbari: 1.0cm. Jihada: dense ko-itame. Hamon: o-choji springing from yakidashi on both sides and developing in width approaching the monouchi where the tempering pattern displays vigorous inazuma and sunagashi in expansive nie and o-nie. Boshi: hakikake with long turn-back.
Nakago, keitai: regular and slightly suriage; yasurime: o-sujikai; nakagojiri: ha-agari kuri-jiri; mekugi-ana: two; katana-mei: Kawachi (no) Kami Kunisuke. Shirasaya.
Sendai-mounted koshirae: a vermillion lacquered saya with diagonally applied black lacquer at the end, applied with an iron omeshi kojiri decorated with silver and gilt paulownia and foliage; a tsuka mounted with a pair of shakudo Goto style menuki formed as shishi and an iron fuchi-kashira similarly decorated with paulownia and foliage; an iron Shoami school tsuba decorated in silver and gold nunome with cherry blossoms and wheels, the ryo-hitsu shaped as Genjimon, height 8.6cm., width 9.1cm., thickness 6mm. Brocade and silk storage bags.
Accompanied by a Tokubetsu kicho ninteisho, no. 5504859, dated Showa 55 (1980), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.
Provenance
Dr. Walter A. Compton, auction, Part I, Christie's, New York, 31 March, 1992, lot 353.