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A MUSASHI WAKIZASHI
EARLY EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1700), SIGNED IZUMO (NO) KAMI FUJIWARA YOSHITAKE
Sugata: shinogi-zukuri with iori-mune and chu-kissaki; nagasa: 1 shaku, 6 sun, 6 bu, 9 rin (50.6 cm.); torii-zori of 1.1 cm.; fumbari: 0.9 cm.; horimono: kaki-toshi bo-hi ni tsure-hi on both sides. Jihada: nicely configured and well-grained itame. Hamon: shallow, irregular gunome midare in nie and nioi with areas of sunagashi, some insinuation of uchinoke, niju-ba with some slight kuichigai-ba, but with patches of kinsuji. Boshi: ko-maru with slight hakikake and moderate kaeri. Nakago: ubu, tapering and with a dry, brown patina; yasurime: sujikai; nakagojiri: iri-yamagata; mekugi-ana: one; mei: katana-mei, Izumo (no) Kami Fujiwara Yoshitake. Shirasaya.
EARLY EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1700), SIGNED IZUMO (NO) KAMI FUJIWARA YOSHITAKE
Sugata: shinogi-zukuri with iori-mune and chu-kissaki; nagasa: 1 shaku, 6 sun, 6 bu, 9 rin (50.6 cm.); torii-zori of 1.1 cm.; fumbari: 0.9 cm.; horimono: kaki-toshi bo-hi ni tsure-hi on both sides. Jihada: nicely configured and well-grained itame. Hamon: shallow, irregular gunome midare in nie and nioi with areas of sunagashi, some insinuation of uchinoke, niju-ba with some slight kuichigai-ba, but with patches of kinsuji. Boshi: ko-maru with slight hakikake and moderate kaeri. Nakago: ubu, tapering and with a dry, brown patina; yasurime: sujikai; nakagojiri: iri-yamagata; mekugi-ana: one; mei: katana-mei, Izumo (no) Kami Fujiwara Yoshitake. Shirasaya.