细节
A BIZEN OSAFUNE SO-DEN WAKIZASHI
NAMBOKUCHO PERIOD (CIRCA 1360-1390), ATTRIBUTED TO KANENAGA
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and medium point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 1 shaku, 7 sun, 9 bu (54.1cm.); curvature (sori): koshi-zori of 1.4cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 0.8cm.; carving (horimono): bo-hi on both sides extending through the tang.
Forging pattern (jihada): wood grain (itame) with some ji-nie.
Tempering pattern (hamon): an elaborate mixture of shallow swells (gonome) with clove-like patterns (choji) and scattered midare, highlighted with 'legs' (ashi), 'swept sands' (sunagashi), yo and scattered isolated patches of tempering (shimaba), all in nie and bright nioi.
Point (boshi): midare-komi with a flame-brushed tip (hakikake).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): o-suriage; file marks (yasurime): slanted (katte-sagari); end (nakagojiri): squared (kirijiri); holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (mei): unsigned (mumei).
Shirasaya.
Wakizashi-koshirae comprising: an undecorated black lacquer saya; a tsuka with a pair of gold Goto school menuki formed as tigers (18th century) and a Goto school shakudo nanako fuchi; a tsuba of iron mokko decorated in gold and silver nunome in Nagasaki style with dragons and Chinese characters (circa 1650); a shakudo nanako kozuka decorated in gold, silver and shakudo with laborers sliding a boulder along wooden rollers, signed Goto Etsujo (1642-1708, founder of the Rikei branchline of the Goto family) and inscribed with a poem on the back; and a solid gold seppa--length of koshirae 73.8cm.; length of tsuka 15.8cm.; tsuba height 6.5cm., width 6.2cm., thickness 9mm.; length of kozuka 9.6cm. Slight damage to the saya.
Wood storage box. Silk and brocade storage bags.
Accompanied by a juyo token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., dated Showa 52 (1977); and a tokubetsu kicho koshirae certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no number, dated 1957.
