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SIGNED BISHU OSAFUNE YASUMITSU, EIKYO 5-NEN 8-GATSU HI (1433), 2ND GENERATION, MUROMACHI PERIOD
Details
A Bizen School Wakizashi
Signed Bishu Osafune Yasumitsu, Eikyo 5-nen 8-gatsu hi (1433), 2nd generation, Muromachi Period
Blade honzukuri, iori-mune, chu-kissaki, forging pattern tight itame with jinie, tempered edge in suguha of nioi, pale utsuri, togari, kogunome, ashi, ko-maru midare boshi, tang ubu, three holes, double gilt copper habaki, nagasa 53cm., sori 1.8cm., motohaba 2.7cm., sakihaba 1.8cm., koshirae black lacquer saya, mounted as kamishimo-zashi, shakudo nanako fuchi inlaid in low-relief with Kuyo and Kiri crests, signed Togawasai Harada Munehide (kao), horn kashira, gilt tiger and leopard menuki, shakudo nanako kogai with tiger in gilt takazogan, 72cm.
Signed Bishu Osafune Yasumitsu, Eikyo 5-nen 8-gatsu hi (1433), 2nd generation, Muromachi Period
Blade honzukuri, iori-mune, chu-kissaki, forging pattern tight itame with jinie, tempered edge in suguha of nioi, pale utsuri, togari, kogunome, ashi, ko-maru midare boshi, tang ubu, three holes, double gilt copper habaki, nagasa 53cm., sori 1.8cm., motohaba 2.7cm., sakihaba 1.8cm., koshirae black lacquer saya, mounted as kamishimo-zashi, shakudo nanako fuchi inlaid in low-relief with Kuyo and Kiri crests, signed Togawasai Harada Munehide (kao), horn kashira, gilt tiger and leopard menuki, shakudo nanako kogai with tiger in gilt takazogan, 72cm.
Literature
The Museum of Japanese Sword Fittings, Kaikan San-shunen kinen Tokubetsu ten, Meimon Kinko Goto-ke no Ishizue, (Tokyo, 1997), cat.no.19, p.12
The Museum of Japanese Sword Fittings, Shinshun Tokubetsu ten, Bizen Meito Ten (Tokyo, 1998), cat.no.17, p.33 and 34
The Museum of Japanese Sword Fittings, Shinshun Tokubetsu ten, Bizen Meito Ten (Tokyo, 1998), cat.no.17, p.33 and 34
Exhibited
Kaikan San-shunen kinen Tokubetsu ten, Meimon Kinko Goto-ke no Ishizue [The 3rd Anniversary Exhibition of Major Work of the Goto Family of Metalworkers], The Museum of Japanese Sword Fittings, Tokyo, September 1997
Shinshun Tokubetsu ten, Bizen Meito Ten [Special Exhibition in Early Spring, Masterpieces of Bizen Swords], The Museum of Japanese Sword Fittings, Tokyo, January 1998
Shinshun Tokubetsu ten, Bizen Meito Ten [Special Exhibition in Early Spring, Masterpieces of Bizen Swords], The Museum of Japanese Sword Fittings, Tokyo, January 1998
Special notice
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