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KINZOGAN MEI: AOE [BUT PROBABLY KAGEMITSU-DEN OF BIZEN], NAMBOKUCHO PERIOD (14TH CENTURY)
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A FINE AND IMPORTANT SILVER-MOUTED TACHI
Kinzogan Mei: Aoe [But Probably Kagemitsu-den of Bizen], Nambokucho Period (14th Century)
The blade, honzukuri and torii-zori with full length wide grooves, superb itame-mokume hada, medium suguba ko-itame hamon, o-maru boshi, black o-choji utsuri becoming blotched utsuri towards the point, suriage nakago with five mekugi-ana, four plugged, 28in. (71.2cm.); in a gold nashiji scabbard decorated in hiramakie with thirty-two petalled kikumon and scrolling leaves and tendrils, the fitting of silver, including ashi, seme and ishizuka, aoitsuba with o-seppa and six silver seppa, the hilt covered in gin-nanako with nikubori tendrils and kenuki, and applied silver and gold kikumon, the silver mekugi formed as kikumon, missing one side, and silver habaki
Kinzogan Mei: Aoe [But Probably Kagemitsu-den of Bizen], Nambokucho Period (14th Century)
The blade, honzukuri and torii-zori with full length wide grooves, superb itame-mokume hada, medium suguba ko-itame hamon, o-maru boshi, black o-choji utsuri becoming blotched utsuri towards the point, suriage nakago with five mekugi-ana, four plugged, 28in. (71.2cm.); in a gold nashiji scabbard decorated in hiramakie with thirty-two petalled kikumon and scrolling leaves and tendrils, the fitting of silver, including ashi, seme and ishizuka, aoitsuba with o-seppa and six silver seppa, the hilt covered in gin-nanako with nikubori tendrils and kenuki, and applied silver and gold kikumon, the silver mekugi formed as kikumon, missing one side, and silver habaki