MINO--NAOE SHIZU
A MINO NAOE SHIZU KATANA
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A MINO NAOE SHIZU KATANA
NAMBOKUCHO PERIOD (CIRCA 1350-1370)
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and large point (o-kissaki); length (nagasa): 2 shaku, 2 sun (70.1cm.); curvature (sori): shallow koshi-zori of 1.2cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 0.7cm.; carving (horimono): bo-hi on both sides ending in pointed ends (kaki-nagashi) inside the tang.
Forging pattern (jihada): crisply defined wood grain (itame) with some insinuations of masame.
Tempering pattern (hamon): clusters of o-gonome together with some more sharply pointed undulations (togari-gonome); at the points of highest convexity, the tempering displays groupings of ko-ashi; along almost the full length of the low-lying areas are 'swept sands' (sunagashi) in bright nie.
Point (boshi): small and rounded (ko-maru) 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): two; signature (katanamei): unsigned (mumei).
Shirasaya with attestation signed Kunzan (Homma Junji).
Accompanied by a juyo token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., dated Showa 59 (1984).
NAMBOKUCHO PERIOD (CIRCA 1350-1370)
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and large point (o-kissaki); length (nagasa): 2 shaku, 2 sun (70.1cm.); curvature (sori): shallow koshi-zori of 1.2cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 0.7cm.; carving (horimono): bo-hi on both sides ending in pointed ends (kaki-nagashi) inside the tang.
Forging pattern (jihada): crisply defined wood grain (itame) with some insinuations of masame.
Tempering pattern (hamon): clusters of o-gonome together with some more sharply pointed undulations (togari-gonome); at the points of highest convexity, the tempering displays groupings of ko-ashi; along almost the full length of the low-lying areas are 'swept sands' (sunagashi) in bright nie.
Point (boshi): small and rounded (ko-maru) 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): two; signature (katanamei): unsigned (mumei).
Shirasaya with attestation signed Kunzan (Homma Junji).
Accompanied by a juyo token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., dated Showa 59 (1984).
Literature
Juyo token to zufu, vol. 31.
One Hundred Masterpieces (1992), no. 37.
One Hundred Masterpieces (1992), no. 37.