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A LATER MINO SEKI TANTO BY TWO SMITHS
MID-MUROMACHI PERIOD (CIRCA 1500), SIGNED KANEMINE AND KANESADA
Configuration (sugata): flat (hira-zukuri) with shallow peaked back (iori-mune); length (nagasa): 8 sun (24.2 cm); curvature (sori): uchizori of 0.2cm.; carving (horimono): outside: suken; inside: maru-dome bo-hi.
Forging pattern (jihada): fine and clearly defined wood grain (itame).
Tempering pattern (hamon): narrow suguba with delicate 'swept sands' (sunagashi) beginning in front of the hamachi and appearing slightly more strongly on the omote, all in excellent ko-nie.
Point (boshi): small and rounded (ko-maru) and centered and abruptly cutting back sharply and directly to the mune in a medium kaeri.
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): slender and unshortened (ubu); file marks (yasurime): higaki yasuri; end (nakagojiri): rounded (kurijiri); holes (mekugi-ana): two; signature (mei): outside: Kanemine; inside: Kanesada.
Shirasaya.
Aikuchi-koshirae, comprising: a black widely ribbed lacquer saya stamped by the maker on the interior, shibasaya (a saya from the branch of a tree), mounted with a silver sageo lightly engraved with scrolling foliage and with silver marugata- kashira, koiguchi, kurikata, uragawara and kuwagata kojiri, each decorated with wave patterns and unsigned; a leather-wrapped tsuka set with two gold Goto dragon menuki; a silver kozuka and wari-kogai engraved katakiribori with chidori in flight, both signed Ikkan(Issan)tei [untraced].-- Length of koshirae 39cm.; length of tsuka 13cm.; length of wari-kogai 16.1cm.; length of kozuka 8.3cm.
Lacquer storage box within a wood storage. Silk storage bags.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no number, Showa 34 (1958).
MID-MUROMACHI PERIOD (CIRCA 1500), SIGNED KANEMINE AND KANESADA
Configuration (sugata): flat (hira-zukuri) with shallow peaked back (iori-mune); length (nagasa): 8 sun (24.2 cm); curvature (sori): uchizori of 0.2cm.; carving (horimono): outside: suken; inside: maru-dome bo-hi.
Forging pattern (jihada): fine and clearly defined wood grain (itame).
Tempering pattern (hamon): narrow suguba with delicate 'swept sands' (sunagashi) beginning in front of the hamachi and appearing slightly more strongly on the omote, all in excellent ko-nie.
Point (boshi): small and rounded (ko-maru) and centered and abruptly cutting back sharply and directly to the mune in a medium kaeri.
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): slender and unshortened (ubu); file marks (yasurime): higaki yasuri; end (nakagojiri): rounded (kurijiri); holes (mekugi-ana): two; signature (mei): outside: Kanemine; inside: Kanesada.
Shirasaya.
Aikuchi-koshirae, comprising: a black widely ribbed lacquer saya stamped by the maker on the interior, shibasaya (a saya from the branch of a tree), mounted with a silver sageo lightly engraved with scrolling foliage and with silver marugata- kashira, koiguchi, kurikata, uragawara and kuwagata kojiri, each decorated with wave patterns and unsigned; a leather-wrapped tsuka set with two gold Goto dragon menuki; a silver kozuka and wari-kogai engraved katakiribori with chidori in flight, both signed Ikkan(Issan)tei [untraced].-- Length of koshirae 39cm.; length of tsuka 13cm.; length of wari-kogai 16.1cm.; length of kozuka 8.3cm.
Lacquer storage box within a wood storage. Silk storage bags.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no number, Showa 34 (1958).