UNSIGNED, LATE KAMAKURA PERIOD (14TH CENTURY)

Details

An Ichimonji School Katana
Unsigned, Late Kamakura Period (14th Century)
Sugata [configuration]: honzukuri, iori-mune, chu-kissaki, deep koshiizori

Kitae [forging pattern]: itame with jinie

Hamon [tempering pattern]: gunome midare of nie, ashi, tobiyaki

Boshi [tip]: ko-maru

Nakago [tang]: o-suriage, three holes

Habaki [collar]: double, copper-gilt

In shirasaya [plain wood scabbard]

Nagasa [length from tip to beginning of tang]: 64.9cm.

Sori [curvature]: 2.4cm.

Motohaba [width at start of tempered edge]: 2.9cm.

Sakihaba [width before tip]: 2.1cm.

Provenance

Kamikita Rokuzo

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Lot Essay

This is a powerful osuriage tachi which may fairly confidently be ascribed to the Ichimonji School of Bizen Province. Large areas of tobiyaki on parts of the blade are caused when the temperature of the heat-treating process is so great that fissures occur in the clay coating, which occurs to a greater or lesser extent on many blades. A note on the registration certificate reads 'Ichimonji Kuni(?)' and 'former collection of Kamikita Rokuzo'.

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