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A SHINTO NAGINATA [HALBERD] REGISTERED AS A TOKUBETSU KICHO TOKEN [ESPECIALLY PRECIOUS SWORD]

SIGNED SETTSU NO KAMI TADAYUKI, EARLY EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY)

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A SHINTO NAGINATA [HALBERD]
REGISTERED AS A TOKUBETSU KICHO TOKEN [ESPECIALLY PRECIOUS SWORD]
Signed Settsu no kami Tadayuki, Early Edo Period (Late 17th Century)
Sugata [configuration]: naginata-zukuri, iori-mune [shallow peaked back]

Kitae [forging pattern]: koitame [fine wood grain] with jinie [hard metal granules over the surface of the blade]

Hamon [tempering pattern]: a combination of gunome [small pointed curves] with hakoba [square projections]

Boshi [tip]: midarekomi [undulating temper line] with a deep kaeri [turnback]

Horimono [carvings]: a single naginata hi [groove] on each side

Nakago [tang]: ubu [unaltered] with sujikai yasurime [diagonal file marks], one mekugi-ana [hole for the retaining peg], kurijiri [rounded heel], signed above the mekugi-ana Settsu no kami Tadayuki [Tadayuki, Guardian of Settsu province]

Fitted with a single silvered copper habaki [collar]

Shirasaya [plain wood scabbard]
Overall length of blade: 30 1/16in. (76.4cm.)
Nagasa [length from tip to beginning of tang]: 16 1/8in. (40.9cm.)
Sori [curvature]: 1 7/16in. (3.7cm.)
Motohaba [width at start of tempered edge]: 1 1/16in. (2.8cm.)

Exhibited

With original certificate of registration as a Tokubetsu kicho token [Especially precious sword] by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai on 21 November 1971

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

The very strongly curved tip and the short tang are both indicative of the degree to which practical requirements gave way to artistic considerations during the course of the seventeenth century. This blade is thought to be the work of the third Tadayuki, who made both naginata and swords.

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