VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A BIZEN KATANA
MUROMACHI PERIOD (DATED 1517), SIGNED BISHU OSAFUNE SUKESADA AND DATED EISHO JUNINEN NIGATSU HI (A DAY IN THE SECOND MONTH 1517)
Details
A BIZEN KATANA
MUROMACHI PERIOD (DATED 1517), SIGNED BISHU OSAFUNE SUKESADA AND DATED EISHO JUNINEN NIGATSU HI (A DAY IN THE SECOND MONTH 1517)
Sugata [configuration]: shinogi-zukuri, iori-mune, saki-zori curve, chu-kissaki
Kitae [forging pattern]: flowing itame with jinie, jifu, and utsuri
Hamon [tempering pattern]: gunome with togari-ba, many yo, sunaashi and obiyaki
Boshi [tip]: midare, kaen style
Nakago [tang]: ubu, possibly slight adjustment of the machi, two mekugi-ana, katte sagari (file marks), ha-agari kurijiri
Habaki [collar]: single gilt-copper
Nagasa [length of blade]: 63.4cm
Horimono [carving]: kaku-dome bohi with soebi and kuwagata (stylized horns) on both sides
Koshirae [mounting]: the uchigatana mounting with black-lacquered scabbard, green hilt binding, round tsuba of shakudo nanako carved with basketry within an arched octagonal, the fuchi-kashira of shakudo migakiji with uchiwa fans inlaid in fine gold and copper ito-zogan signed Jochiku, the menuki of shakudo and gold depicting flying creatures, kozuka of shakudo and shibuichi with a water-beetle and poem in gold and silver inlay, the kogai of shakudo and shibuichi with a flowering plum bough carved in katakiri-bori and with copper and gold inlay (2)
MUROMACHI PERIOD (DATED 1517), SIGNED BISHU OSAFUNE SUKESADA AND DATED EISHO JUNINEN NIGATSU HI (A DAY IN THE SECOND MONTH 1517)
Sugata [configuration]: shinogi-zukuri, iori-mune, saki-zori curve, chu-kissaki
Kitae [forging pattern]: flowing itame with jinie, jifu, and utsuri
Hamon [tempering pattern]: gunome with togari-ba, many yo, sunaashi and obiyaki
Boshi [tip]: midare, kaen style
Nakago [tang]: ubu, possibly slight adjustment of the machi, two mekugi-ana, katte sagari (file marks), ha-agari kurijiri
Habaki [collar]: single gilt-copper
Nagasa [length of blade]: 63.4cm
Horimono [carving]: kaku-dome bohi with soebi and kuwagata (stylized horns) on both sides
Koshirae [mounting]: the uchigatana mounting with black-lacquered scabbard, green hilt binding, round tsuba of shakudo nanako carved with basketry within an arched octagonal, the fuchi-kashira of shakudo migakiji with uchiwa fans inlaid in fine gold and copper ito-zogan signed Jochiku, the menuki of shakudo and gold depicting flying creatures, kozuka of shakudo and shibuichi with a water-beetle and poem in gold and silver inlay, the kogai of shakudo and shibuichi with a flowering plum bough carved in katakiri-bori and with copper and gold inlay (2)
Sale room notice
This lot is accompanied by a certificate of registration as a Hozon token (Sword worthy of preservation) for the blade, no. 306362 issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai (Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Art Sword), dated 1986.6.20;
A certificate for the tsuba, no. 2680, 1980.5.20, issued by the Nihon Token Hozon Kai (Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Sword);
A certificate for the tsukamae, no. 2681, 1984.5.20, issued by the Nihon Token Hozon Kai (Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Sword);
And a certificate for the kogai and kozuka, no. 2682, 1980.5.20, issued by the Nihon Token Hozon Kai (Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Sword)
A certificate for the tsuba, no. 2680, 1980.5.20, issued by the Nihon Token Hozon Kai (Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Sword);
A certificate for the tsukamae, no. 2681, 1984.5.20, issued by the Nihon Token Hozon Kai (Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Sword);
And a certificate for the kogai and kozuka, no. 2682, 1980.5.20, issued by the Nihon Token Hozon Kai (Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Sword)
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