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A LATE KOTO WAKIZASHI, PROBABLY BIZEN, IN SHIBUICHI MOUNTS BY IWAMOTO KONJU (MID-19TH CENTURY)
MUROMACHI PERIOD, 16TH CENTURY
Sugata: shobu-zukuri iori-mune and ko-gissaki; nagasa: 1 shaku, 3 sun, 5 bu, 6 rin (41.1 cm.); torii-zori of 1.0 cm. Jihada: itame. Hamon: narrow suguba in nie and nioi. Boshi: hakikake. Nakago: ubu, regular and tapering and with a brown patina; yasurime: sujikai; nakagojiri: kengyo; mekugi-ana: two; mei: mumei.
Wakizashi-koshirae: ribbed black saya (some chips and dents); matching shibuichi mounts, all signed Iwamoto Konju and kao: tsuba of irregular outline and applied in shibuichi and gold with a fox squatting beside a stream and arranging rice stalks in her hair while looking at her reflection as a beautiful, young woman in the surface of the stream, the reverse applied in shakudo and gold with autumn grasses and flowers, height 6.8 cm; kozuka depicting a female ghost highlighted with gold and silver; copper and shibuichi menuki of a two-tailed cat and a one-eyed goblin (unsigned).
fuchi applied in shakudo, gold and silver with a frog holding a severed head at the end of its long tongue; kashira depicting a giant-headed goblin; kojiri in the form of a shakudo head spewing copper flames against a background of spokes applied over a gold plate (unsigned); kaeri and kurikata missing.
MUROMACHI PERIOD, 16TH CENTURY
Sugata: shobu-zukuri iori-mune and ko-gissaki; nagasa: 1 shaku, 3 sun, 5 bu, 6 rin (41.1 cm.); torii-zori of 1.0 cm. Jihada: itame. Hamon: narrow suguba in nie and nioi. Boshi: hakikake. Nakago: ubu, regular and tapering and with a brown patina; yasurime: sujikai; nakagojiri: kengyo; mekugi-ana: two; mei: mumei.
Wakizashi-koshirae: ribbed black saya (some chips and dents); matching shibuichi mounts, all signed Iwamoto Konju and kao: tsuba of irregular outline and applied in shibuichi and gold with a fox squatting beside a stream and arranging rice stalks in her hair while looking at her reflection as a beautiful, young woman in the surface of the stream, the reverse applied in shakudo and gold with autumn grasses and flowers, height 6.8 cm; kozuka depicting a female ghost highlighted with gold and silver; copper and shibuichi menuki of a two-tailed cat and a one-eyed goblin (unsigned).
fuchi applied in shakudo, gold and silver with a frog holding a severed head at the end of its long tongue; kashira depicting a giant-headed goblin; kojiri in the form of a shakudo head spewing copper flames against a background of spokes applied over a gold plate (unsigned); kaeri and kurikata missing.