Lot Essay
The blade accompanied by a Tokubetsu Kicho [Especially Precious Sword] certificate no.192996, issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai [Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Art Sword]
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UNSIGNED, KAMAKURA PERIOD (EARLY 14TH CENTURY)
Details
AN ITOMAKI TACHI
Unsigned, Kamakura Period (Early 14th Century)
Sugata [configuration]: honzukuri, iori-mune, koshi-zori with chu-gissaki
Kitae [forging pattern]: ko-itame with masame, jinie
Hamon [tempering pattern]: ko-choji-midare with ashi and yo, choji utsuri
Boshi [tip]: ko-maru
Horimono [carvings]: bohi on both sides
Nakago [tang]: o-suriage
In shirasaya [plain wood scabbard]
Nagasa [length from tip to beginning of tang]: 67cm.
Koshirae [mounting]: itomaki tachi mounting with raden saya bearing eight black lacquer tomoe mon, kabuto gane tsuba and saya mounts of shakudo nanako with gilt tomoe mon, the metal fittings late 17th - early 18th Century, the mounting 19th Century
Unsigned, Kamakura Period (Early 14th Century)
Sugata [configuration]: honzukuri, iori-mune, koshi-zori with chu-gissaki
Kitae [forging pattern]: ko-itame with masame, jinie
Hamon [tempering pattern]: ko-choji-midare with ashi and yo, choji utsuri
Boshi [tip]: ko-maru
Horimono [carvings]: bohi on both sides
Nakago [tang]: o-suriage
In shirasaya [plain wood scabbard]
Nagasa [length from tip to beginning of tang]: 67cm.
Koshirae [mounting]: itomaki tachi mounting with raden saya bearing eight black lacquer tomoe mon, kabuto gane tsuba and saya mounts of shakudo nanako with gilt tomoe mon, the metal fittings late 17th - early 18th Century, the mounting 19th Century
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