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KAMAKURA PERIOD (CIRCA 13TH CENTURY), BEARING INSET SIGNATURE SHINSOKU
Details
A Slung Blade (Koto Tachi)
Kamakura period (circa 13th century), bearing inset signature Shinsoku
Of shinogi zukuri configuration with iori-mune (shallow-peaked back) and with ko-kissaki (small point) and strong koshi-zori curvature (the high point of the arc is near the bottom part of the blade); the forging pattern mokume (wood burl) and the temper line ko and sugu-choji (small and medium clove patterns); the tip midare-komi (temper continuing to the tip); the tang shortened with new file marks; four peg holes
26½in. (67.2cm.) long
Shirasaya (wood storage scabbard) with inscription reading Matsudaira ke zo (Matsudaira household collection) and an inscription claiming that in the early days of the Kamakura shogunate, in the second month of 1252, Prince Munetaka, son of the Emperor, went from Kyoto to Kamakura to open the government and was attended by Kiyohara Noritaka Sagami-no-Suke Mikawa-no-Kami, of the rank of Dai Ki Sho Go-I, to whom he gave the sword.
With an origami (photocopy only) bearing the seal of the eleventh Shogun Tokugawa Ienari stating that the blade had been given to the Matsudaira family, and an origami (photocopy only), dated Meiji 9 (1876) and signed by the Iwakura household, stating that the blade had been given (to Prince Iwakura Tomomi) by the Matsudaira
Kamakura period (circa 13th century), bearing inset signature Shinsoku
Of shinogi zukuri configuration with iori-mune (shallow-peaked back) and with ko-kissaki (small point) and strong koshi-zori curvature (the high point of the arc is near the bottom part of the blade); the forging pattern mokume (wood burl) and the temper line ko and sugu-choji (small and medium clove patterns); the tip midare-komi (temper continuing to the tip); the tang shortened with new file marks; four peg holes
26½in. (67.2cm.) long
Shirasaya (wood storage scabbard) with inscription reading Matsudaira ke zo (Matsudaira household collection) and an inscription claiming that in the early days of the Kamakura shogunate, in the second month of 1252, Prince Munetaka, son of the Emperor, went from Kyoto to Kamakura to open the government and was attended by Kiyohara Noritaka Sagami-no-Suke Mikawa-no-Kami, of the rank of Dai Ki Sho Go-I, to whom he gave the sword.
With an origami (photocopy only) bearing the seal of the eleventh Shogun Tokugawa Ienari stating that the blade had been given to the Matsudaira family, and an origami (photocopy only), dated Meiji 9 (1876) and signed by the Iwakura household, stating that the blade had been given (to Prince Iwakura Tomomi) by the Matsudaira
Provenance
Walter Compton, sold in these Rooms, Japanese Swords and Sword Fittings from the Collection of Walter A. Compton, part II, 22 October, 1992, lot 207
Tokugawa Ienari (1787-1837, purported)
Matsudaira family (purported)
Iwakura Tomomi (1825-1883, purported)
Tokugawa Ienari (1787-1837, purported)
Matsudaira family (purported)
Iwakura Tomomi (1825-1883, purported)