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PROPERTY FROM THE KAISENDO MUSEUM COLLECTION
A HIZEN KATANA
EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY), SIGNED HIZEN KUNI JU OMI DAIJO FUJIWARA TADAHIRO
Details
A HIZEN KATANA
EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY), SIGNED HIZEN KUNI JU OMI DAIJO FUJIWARA TADAHIRO
Configuration [sugata]: honzukuri, iori-mune, shallow toriizori, chu-kissaki
Forging pattern [kitae]: fine ko-nuka-hada with jinie
Tempering pattern [hamon]: chu-suguha, nie with ko-ashi and yo
Tip [boshi]: ko-maru
Tang [nakago]: ubu, file marks (yasurime): kiri, holes (mekugi-ana): one, end (nakagojiri): kengyo
Length from tip to beginning of tang [nagasa]: 70.4cm.; curvature 1.6cm.; width at start of tempered edge 3.3cm.; width before tip 2.3cm
Collar [habaki]: single gilt copper
In shirasaya (plain wood scabbard)
Accompanied by a Koshu Tokubetsu Kicho Token (Especially precious sword) certificate, no. 4185, 29 June 1975, issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai (Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Art Sword)
EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY), SIGNED HIZEN KUNI JU OMI DAIJO FUJIWARA TADAHIRO
Configuration [sugata]: honzukuri, iori-mune, shallow toriizori, chu-kissaki
Forging pattern [kitae]: fine ko-nuka-hada with jinie
Tempering pattern [hamon]: chu-suguha, nie with ko-ashi and yo
Tip [boshi]: ko-maru
Tang [nakago]: ubu, file marks (yasurime): kiri, holes (mekugi-ana): one, end (nakagojiri): kengyo
Length from tip to beginning of tang [nagasa]: 70.4cm.; curvature 1.6cm.; width at start of tempered edge 3.3cm.; width before tip 2.3cm
Collar [habaki]: single gilt copper
In shirasaya (plain wood scabbard)
Accompanied by a Koshu Tokubetsu Kicho Token (Especially precious sword) certificate, no. 4185, 29 June 1975, issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai (Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Art Sword)
Provenance
Kaisendo Museum, Yamagata, Japan
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