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Property from the Albert Maroni Family Collection
AN ECHIZEN SCHOOL WAKIZASHI
EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY)
Details
AN ECHIZEN SCHOOL WAKIZASHI
EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY)
Configuration [sugata]: hira-zukuri, mitsu-mune with shallow curvature
Forging pattern [kitae]: itame with some ji-nie
Tempering pattern [hamon]: chu-sugu-ha with nioi
Point [boshi]: kaeri-fukai
Tang [nakago]: funagata with kengyo-shape tip, unshortened (machi-okuri), tapering with two holes
Length from tip to beginning of tang [nagasa]: 31.7 cm.; curvature xx cm.; width at start of tempered edge 3 cm.; width before tip 1.6 cm.
Collar [habaki]: gilt bronze craved with flower and grass
Carving [horimono]: on the omote a kurikara, on the ura a sword and Sanskrit bhrum
In shirasaya (wood storage scabbard) with attestation by Sato Kan'ichi (1907-1978) for the sword
Mounting [koshirae]: Black lacquer ribbed aikuchi koshirae wakizashi scabbard, iron fuchi-kashira and sayajiri finely carved and inlaid in gold and shakudo with a crab on lotus leaf by river, signed Isso with cursive monogram (kao) and sealed Yazuki; iron, gold and shibuichi menuki of hazy moon and man on boat, tsuka in ray skin; iron kozuka inlaid in gold, shakudo and shibuichi with flying geese, signed Edo ju Omura Kaboku; 48.5 cm.
The mounting accompanied with Tokubetsu kicho shodogu certificate, issued by Nihon bijutsu token hozon kyokai, 23 January (no. 171); the sword had a Tokubetsu kicho token certificate, 26 February 1976 (no. 321290), now missing
EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY)
Configuration [sugata]: hira-zukuri, mitsu-mune with shallow curvature
Forging pattern [kitae]: itame with some ji-nie
Tempering pattern [hamon]: chu-sugu-ha with nioi
Point [boshi]: kaeri-fukai
Tang [nakago]: funagata with kengyo-shape tip, unshortened (machi-okuri), tapering with two holes
Length from tip to beginning of tang [nagasa]: 31.7 cm.; curvature xx cm.; width at start of tempered edge 3 cm.; width before tip 1.6 cm.
Collar [habaki]: gilt bronze craved with flower and grass
Carving [horimono]: on the omote a kurikara, on the ura a sword and Sanskrit bhrum
In shirasaya (wood storage scabbard) with attestation by Sato Kan'ichi (1907-1978) for the sword
Mounting [koshirae]: Black lacquer ribbed aikuchi koshirae wakizashi scabbard, iron fuchi-kashira and sayajiri finely carved and inlaid in gold and shakudo with a crab on lotus leaf by river, signed Isso with cursive monogram (kao) and sealed Yazuki; iron, gold and shibuichi menuki of hazy moon and man on boat, tsuka in ray skin; iron kozuka inlaid in gold, shakudo and shibuichi with flying geese, signed Edo ju Omura Kaboku; 48.5 cm.
The mounting accompanied with Tokubetsu kicho shodogu certificate, issued by Nihon bijutsu token hozon kyokai, 23 January (no. 171); the sword had a Tokubetsu kicho token certificate, 26 February 1976 (no. 321290), now missing
Exhibited
On loan to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 31 December 1973
Brought to you by
Takaaki Murakami (村上高明)
Vice President, Specialist and Head of Department | Japanese and Korean Art