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EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY), SIGNED ISHIDO KOREKAZU SAKU, DATED KA'EI NINEN HACHIGATSU (NO) HI (1848.8) AND INSCRIBED MARUKE RISAKU BO NI YORI TSUKURU AND WITH HOLLYHOCK CREST
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An Edo-Ishido Katana in Mounts
Edo period (19th century), signed Ishido Korekazu saku, dated Ka'ei ninen hachigatsu (no) hi (1848.8) and inscribed Maruke Risaku bo ni yori tsukuru and with hollyhock crest
Sugata [configuration]: hon-zukuri, iori-mune, chu-kissaki, torii-zori
Kitae [forging pattern]: very closely packed ko-itame with hints of mokume
Hamon [tempering pattern]: choji with ashi in nioi and nie
Boshi [tip]: midare komi
Nakago [tang]: ubu with sujikai file marks, one hole
Nagasa [length from tip to beginning of tang]: 27 1/8in. (68.9cm.) long
Motohaba [width at start of tempered edge]: 1 1/8in. (2.9cm.)
Sakihaba [width before tip]: 7/8in. (2.3cm.)
In shirasaya [plain wood storage scabbard]
19th-century koshirae comprising a red-lacquer ishime saya with silver nashiji embellishments, decorated with butterflies in yamimaki-e, the hardware all gilt-silver and finished in "cat-scratch" patterns on the surface, the tsuka wrapped in red silk and fitted with a shakudo and gold menuki carved as a dragon in clouds coiling around a temple bell and gilt-silver fuchi-gashira decorated to match the saya hardware, iron sukashi Saotome-school tsuba carved with a woodcutter and Mount Fuji with gold and copper highlights, hitsu-ana plugged with shakudo, gilt-silver rope rim, signed Saotome Moriie, 38in. (96.5cm.) long
With a Tokubetsu kicho token (Especially precious sword) certificate issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai (Society for the Preservation of the Japan Art Sword) no. 2912, dated 1952.1.27
With a Tokubetsu kicho tosogu (Especially precious sword-fitting) certificate issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai (Society for the Preservation of the Japan Art Sword) no. 359, dated 1976.5.1 (2)
Edo period (19th century), signed Ishido Korekazu saku, dated Ka'ei ninen hachigatsu (no) hi (1848.8) and inscribed Maruke Risaku bo ni yori tsukuru and with hollyhock crest
Sugata [configuration]: hon-zukuri, iori-mune, chu-kissaki, torii-zori
Kitae [forging pattern]: very closely packed ko-itame with hints of mokume
Hamon [tempering pattern]: choji with ashi in nioi and nie
Boshi [tip]: midare komi
Nakago [tang]: ubu with sujikai file marks, one hole
Nagasa [length from tip to beginning of tang]: 27 1/8in. (68.9cm.) long
Motohaba [width at start of tempered edge]: 1 1/8in. (2.9cm.)
Sakihaba [width before tip]: 7/8in. (2.3cm.)
In shirasaya [plain wood storage scabbard]
19th-century koshirae comprising a red-lacquer ishime saya with silver nashiji embellishments, decorated with butterflies in yamimaki-e, the hardware all gilt-silver and finished in "cat-scratch" patterns on the surface, the tsuka wrapped in red silk and fitted with a shakudo and gold menuki carved as a dragon in clouds coiling around a temple bell and gilt-silver fuchi-gashira decorated to match the saya hardware, iron sukashi Saotome-school tsuba carved with a woodcutter and Mount Fuji with gold and copper highlights, hitsu-ana plugged with shakudo, gilt-silver rope rim, signed Saotome Moriie, 38in. (96.5cm.) long
With a Tokubetsu kicho token (Especially precious sword) certificate issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai (Society for the Preservation of the Japan Art Sword) no. 2912, dated 1952.1.27
With a Tokubetsu kicho tosogu (Especially precious sword-fitting) certificate issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai (Society for the Preservation of the Japan Art Sword) no. 359, dated 1976.5.1 (2)