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A MINO SEKI TANTO
EDO PERIOD (SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY), SIGNED YOSHITOKI SAKU
Sugata: partial moroha-zukuri with iori-mune and a short uchizori; nagasa: 7 sun, 7 bu, 8 rin (23.6 cm.); horimono: katana-bi on both sides. Jihada: o-itame with some ji-nie. Hamon: gonome midare in nioi and nie with tobiyaki extending to the present mune-machi and along the mune is extensive sunagashi. Boshi: chu-maru. Nakago: slightly furisode, suriage (approximately 3 cm.), machi-okuri and with a moist, brown patina; yasurime: higaki; nakagojiri: kiri-jiri; mekugi-ana: three; mei: Yoshitoki saku. Shirasaya. Silk storage bag.
Silver-mounted Aikuchi-goshirae: roiro saya; full silver mounts (kozuka, umabari, fuchi-kashira, o-kojiri, kurikata, tsukatsutsgane [collar encircling the midsection of the tauka] and sayadogane [collar encircling the saya at the kurikata]) applied in silver, gold, copper and shakudo with dogs, pheasants and a monkey with fruiting trees of persimmon, peaches and pomegranates; the baleen-wrapped tsuka is fitted with gold, silver and shakudo menuki in the form of a table of auspicious things and with a figure of an oni presenting a basin of tama to the seated figure of Momotaro; the kozuka, umabari, tsukatsutsugane, sayadogane and o-kojiri all inscribed Iwamoto Konkan kore(o) saku and dated Bunka gan (nen) aki o-konomi (On order to taste in the autumn of Bunka 1 [1804]). Silk storage bag. (2)
EDO PERIOD (SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY), SIGNED YOSHITOKI SAKU
Sugata: partial moroha-zukuri with iori-mune and a short uchizori; nagasa: 7 sun, 7 bu, 8 rin (23.6 cm.); horimono: katana-bi on both sides. Jihada: o-itame with some ji-nie. Hamon: gonome midare in nioi and nie with tobiyaki extending to the present mune-machi and along the mune is extensive sunagashi. Boshi: chu-maru. Nakago: slightly furisode, suriage (approximately 3 cm.), machi-okuri and with a moist, brown patina; yasurime: higaki; nakagojiri: kiri-jiri; mekugi-ana: three; mei: Yoshitoki saku. Shirasaya. Silk storage bag.
Silver-mounted Aikuchi-goshirae: roiro saya; full silver mounts (kozuka, umabari, fuchi-kashira, o-kojiri, kurikata, tsukatsutsgane [collar encircling the midsection of the tauka] and sayadogane [collar encircling the saya at the kurikata]) applied in silver, gold, copper and shakudo with dogs, pheasants and a monkey with fruiting trees of persimmon, peaches and pomegranates; the baleen-wrapped tsuka is fitted with gold, silver and shakudo menuki in the form of a table of auspicious things and with a figure of an oni presenting a basin of tama to the seated figure of Momotaro; the kozuka, umabari, tsukatsutsugane, sayadogane and o-kojiri all inscribed Iwamoto Konkan kore(o) saku and dated Bunka gan (nen) aki o-konomi (On order to taste in the autumn of Bunka 1 [1804]). Silk storage bag. (2)