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A BIZEN OSAFUNE O-TANTO
MUROMACHI PERIOD (DATED BUNMEI 11 [1479]), SIGNED BISHU OSAFUNE NORIMITSU, ATTRIBUTED TO NORIMITSU II
Sugata: kataunokubi-zukuri with mitsu-mune; nagasa: 1 shaku, 2.6 bu (31.3 cm.); horimono: goma-bashi. Jihada: itame masame. Hamon: narrow suguba. Boshi: ko-maru. Nakago keitai: Bizen, ubu and with a dry, brown patina; yasurime: sujikai; nakagojiri: kuri-jiri; mekugi-ana: one; mei, Bishu Osafune Norimitsu; jidai: Bunmei 11-nen 8-gatsu (8th month of 1479).
Tanto saya lacquered with stylized clouds; Nara style shibuichi tanto tsuba engraved with Fuji and waves and applied with shakudo trees, unsigned, early 19th century, height 5.2 cm.; shakudo nanako kozuka molded with a kirin, unsigned; Storage bag.
MUROMACHI PERIOD (DATED BUNMEI 11 [1479]), SIGNED BISHU OSAFUNE NORIMITSU, ATTRIBUTED TO NORIMITSU II
Sugata: kataunokubi-zukuri with mitsu-mune; nagasa: 1 shaku, 2.6 bu (31.3 cm.); horimono: goma-bashi. Jihada: itame masame. Hamon: narrow suguba. Boshi: ko-maru. Nakago keitai: Bizen, ubu and with a dry, brown patina; yasurime: sujikai; nakagojiri: kuri-jiri; mekugi-ana: one; mei, Bishu Osafune Norimitsu; jidai: Bunmei 11-nen 8-gatsu (8th month of 1479).
Tanto saya lacquered with stylized clouds; Nara style shibuichi tanto tsuba engraved with Fuji and waves and applied with shakudo trees, unsigned, early 19th century, height 5.2 cm.; shakudo nanako kozuka molded with a kirin, unsigned; Storage bag.