SIGNED USHU YAJIMA SHIN FUJIWARA KUNISHIGE SAKU KORE, AND KEIO SANNEN HACHIGATSU HI [A DAY IN THE EIGHTH MONTH 1867], EDO PERIOD, (19TH CENTURY)

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AN USHU KATANA
SIGNED USHU YAJIMA SHIN FUJIWARA KUNISHIGE SAKU KORE, AND KEIO SANNEN HACHIGATSU HI [A DAY IN THE EIGHTH MONTH 1867], EDO PERIOD, (19TH CENTURY)
Sugata [configuration]: Hon-zukuri, iori-mune, shallow curve, chu-kissaki
Kitae [forging pattern]: Prominent itame-hada
Hamon [tempering pattern]: Suguha-cho with much hotsure and uchi-noke of nie
Boshi [tip]: Ko-maru
Nakago [tang]: Ubu, o-sujigai file marks, one mekugi-ana, iriyama-gata jiri
Habaki [collar]: Single silver-clad copper
Nagasa [length of blade]: 72.3cm
Koshirae [mounting]: Katana mounting , the red and black mottled lacquered saya with a long kojiri with silver rim and some gilt decoration, round iron tsuba with turnips carved in shishiai-bori with some light gilding, the fuchi-kashira of rough ishimeji iron with silver rims, on the fuchi paulownia detailed in gold leaf, menuki of shishi in shibuichi with details in gold

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Lot Essay

Miyazaki Shigeyoshi, or Fujiwara Kunishige signed with two different characters for shige. Inscriptions on blades made by possibly two or more smiths contain both Yajima shin (a retainer of Yajima) and Yajima ju (resident of Yajima), and also shows that they worked in Sekishu (Iwami province the Western part of Shimane Prefecture), Ushu (Dewa province present day Yamagata/Akita Prefectures). The smiths were retained by the Ikoma clan.

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