SIGNED (KIKU MON) IZUMI (NO) KAMI RAI KINMICHI, EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY)

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A YAMASHIRO WAKIZASHI
SIGNED (KIKU MON) IZUMI (NO) KAMI RAI KINMICHI, EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY)
Sugata [configuration]: honzukuri, iori-mune, shallow curve, chu-kissaki
Kitae [forging pattern]: ko-itame with chikei
Hamon [tempering pattern]: shallow o-notare with gunomeba in the upper third of the blade
Boshi [tip]: ko-maru with hakikake
Nakago [tang]: ubu, o-sujigai file marks, two mekugi-ana, sharp ha-agari kurijiri tip
Habaki [collar]: lightly silvered double copper
Nagasa [length of blade]: 53.6cm
Koshirae [mounting]: in shirasaya

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Lot Essay

The first Rai Kinmichi was, together with the elder brother brother Iga no kami Kinmichi, Tamba no kami Yoshimichi, and Etchu no kami Masatoshi, son of Kanemichi of Seki, who sometime during the Eiroku era (1558-1570) went to Kyoto. The Sanpin group, as they became known came to exert considerable influence in the allocation of titular honours during the Edo period. Successive generations of the family exercised the right to carve the chrysanthemum mon on the tangs of their work. The third generation Rai Kinmichi was granted the title Izumi no kami during the Enpo era (1673-1681), inherited by the fourth generation. This blade appears to be by Kinmichi III.

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