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A BIZEN OSAFUNE WAKIZASHI
MUROMACHI PERIOD, DATED EISHO 2 (1505), SIGNED BISHU OSAFUNE SUKESADA
Sugata: shinogi-zukuri with iori-mune and chu-kissaki; nagasa: 1 shaku, 6 sun, 3 bu (49.3 cm.); koshi-zori of 1.2 cm. Jihada: itame. Hamon:
saiba [retempered] wide, shallow gonome with komidare of extensive nie. Boshi: hakikake. Nakago: tapering, ubu and with a dry, brown patina; yasurime: sujikai; nakagojiri: kengyo; mekugi-ana: one; katana-mei: Bishu Osafune Sukesada; jidai: Eisho 2-nen 8-gatsu nichi (1505).
Wakizashi-goshirae: roiro saya (chips and damage); tsuka with gilt cockrel menuki and shakudo o-nanako fuchi-kashira, unsigned; iron Echizen Kinai tsuba of a dragon, signed Echizen (no) ju Kinai, height 7 cm.
MUROMACHI PERIOD, DATED EISHO 2 (1505), SIGNED BISHU OSAFUNE SUKESADA
Sugata: shinogi-zukuri with iori-mune and chu-kissaki; nagasa: 1 shaku, 6 sun, 3 bu (49.3 cm.); koshi-zori of 1.2 cm. Jihada: itame. Hamon:
saiba [retempered] wide, shallow gonome with komidare of extensive nie. Boshi: hakikake. Nakago: tapering, ubu and with a dry, brown patina; yasurime: sujikai; nakagojiri: kengyo; mekugi-ana: one; katana-mei: Bishu Osafune Sukesada; jidai: Eisho 2-nen 8-gatsu nichi (1505).
Wakizashi-goshirae: roiro saya (chips and damage); tsuka with gilt cockrel menuki and shakudo o-nanako fuchi-kashira, unsigned; iron Echizen Kinai tsuba of a dragon, signed Echizen (no) ju Kinai, height 7 cm.