EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY), SIGNED IZUMI NO KAMI FUJIWARA KUNISADA

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AN OSAKA KATANA
EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY), SIGNED IZUMI NO KAMI FUJIWARA KUNISADA
Configuration [sugata]: honzukuri, iori-mune, chu-kissaki
Forging pattern [kitae]: dense ko-itame with jinie
Tempering pattern [hamon]: starting in Osaka yakidashi, wide o-choji of nie with sunagashi, tempering edge close to shinogi at upper part
Tip [boshi]: wide ko-maru with nie, midare return
Tang [nakago]: ubu, file marks (yasurime): o-sujikai, end (nakagojiri): haagari-kurijiri tip, holes (mekugi-ana): one
Length from tip to beginning of tang [nagasa]: 71.2cm, 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.4214, 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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Lot Essay

This sword may be signed by Kunisada I (?-1652) during his late career or signed by Kunisada II (Inoue Shinkai) on behalf of the artist.
Kunisada I received the name of Izumi no kami in the nineth year of Gen’na (1623). According to Yoshida Hideo (b. 1947), While Kunisada I kept producing swords until 1651, after 1645 Shinkai often signed on Kunisada I behalf due to the artist’s increasing health issues.

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