A KOTO WAKIZASHI

NANBOKUCHO - MUROMACHI PERIOD (14TH - 15TH CENTURY)

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A KOTO WAKIZASHI
NANBOKUCHO - MUROMACHI PERIOD (14th - 15th century)
Sugata [configuration]: honzukuri, iori-mune deep even curve, chu-kissaki nobiru
Kitae [forging pattern]: itame-nagare with masame and ko-itame
Hamon [tempering pattern]: a complex suguha-cho, with kinsen, ko-choji and ko-gunome with ashi
Boshi [tip]: ko-notare with ko-maru
Nakago [tang]: o-suriage, single mekugi-ana, katte-sagai file marks, kirijiri
Habaki [collar]: double gilt copper
Nagasa [length of blade]: 45.6cm.
Koshirae [mounting]: wakizashi koshirae, the saya lacquered black with a spider, snail, beetle, grasshoppers, butterflies, dragonflies among grasses in gold makie, a kozuka of nanako-ji shibuichi with a flying insect, wild chrysanthemums, and a broken umbrella in high relief inlay of copper silver and gold, fuchi-gashira of shibuichi migakiji with grasshoppers in high relief inlay of shakudo and gold, the fuchi signed Tani Motooki and with kao, menuki of grasshoppers on bean-pods in copper, shakudo and gold, rounded square patinated copper tsuba with raised mimi and with dragonfly and grasses in high relief inlay of shakudo and gold, the kogai-hitsu-ana plugged with shakudo

拍品專文

The masame, flowing hada and elegant shape of this blade indicate the Yamato tradition, and the ko-choji with kinsuji suggest the early Senjuiin style in particular, although similar characteristics are found on later work such as that of the Mihara school of Bingo province.