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AN ETCHU WAKIZASHI
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1715), SIGNED HATTORI SAN FUJITARO NORITOSHI/HITACHI (NO) KUNI NI OITE GASSAN KORE-O SAKU
(ATTRIBUTED TO NORITOSHI II)
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and medium point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 1 shaku, 6 sun, 8 bu (50.9 cm.); curvature (sori): koshi-zori of 1.1 cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 0.9 cm.
Forging pattern (jihada): wood grain (itame).
Tempering pattern (hamon): medium suguba in ko-nie and with a considerable amount of 'swept sands' (sunagashi).
Point (boshi): full brush (hakikake).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): slender, slightly uplifted, tapering, ubu and with a moist, brown patina; file marks (yasurime): vertical; end (nakagojiri): ha-agari kuri-jiri; holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (katanamei): outside (omote): Hattori san Fujitaro Noritoshi; inside (ura): Hitachi (no) Kuni ni oite Gassan koreo saku.
Shirasaya.
Silk storage bag.
Accompanied by a hozon token certificate, no. 302160, Showa 59 (1984), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1715), SIGNED HATTORI SAN FUJITARO NORITOSHI/HITACHI (NO) KUNI NI OITE GASSAN KORE-O SAKU
(ATTRIBUTED TO NORITOSHI II)
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and medium point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 1 shaku, 6 sun, 8 bu (50.9 cm.); curvature (sori): koshi-zori of 1.1 cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 0.9 cm.
Forging pattern (jihada): wood grain (itame).
Tempering pattern (hamon): medium suguba in ko-nie and with a considerable amount of 'swept sands' (sunagashi).
Point (boshi): full brush (hakikake).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): slender, slightly uplifted, tapering, ubu and with a moist, brown patina; file marks (yasurime): vertical; end (nakagojiri): ha-agari kuri-jiri; holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (katanamei): outside (omote): Hattori san Fujitaro Noritoshi; inside (ura): Hitachi (no) Kuni ni oite Gassan koreo saku.
Shirasaya.
Silk storage bag.
Accompanied by a hozon token certificate, no. 302160, Showa 59 (1984), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.