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AN ECHIZEN TANTO
LATE MUROMACHI PERIOD (16TH CENTURY)
Sugata: hira-zukuri with iori-mune; nagasa: 9 sun, 1 bu (27.6 cm.); horimono: not original (atobori) depicting Bishamon-Ten and a dragon. Jihada: itame. Hamon: o-gonome with extensive sunagashi. Nakago keitai: o-suriage; yasurime: katte-sagari; nakagojiri: kiri-jiri; mekugi-ana: two; signature (mei), katana-mei: Echi--.
Aikuchi-goshirae: red nashiji saya; iron mounts modelled with an o-ishime surface and decorated in relief with gold nunome grasses under a full moon; shakudo kozuka and kogai (not original or matching); brown-wrapped tsuka fitted with a pair of Goto style gold menuki of cockrel and hen.
LATE MUROMACHI PERIOD (16TH CENTURY)
Sugata: hira-zukuri with iori-mune; nagasa: 9 sun, 1 bu (27.6 cm.); horimono: not original (atobori) depicting Bishamon-Ten and a dragon. Jihada: itame. Hamon: o-gonome with extensive sunagashi. Nakago keitai: o-suriage; yasurime: katte-sagari; nakagojiri: kiri-jiri; mekugi-ana: two; signature (mei), katana-mei: Echi--.
Aikuchi-goshirae: red nashiji saya; iron mounts modelled with an o-ishime surface and decorated in relief with gold nunome grasses under a full moon; shakudo kozuka and kogai (not original or matching); brown-wrapped tsuka fitted with a pair of Goto style gold menuki of cockrel and hen.