BIZEN--LATER
A BIZEN OSAFUNE TANTO
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A BIZEN OSAFUNE TANTO
MUROMACHI PERIOD, CIRCA 1500, SIGNED SUKESADA SAKU
Configuration (sugata): flat (hira-zukuri) with shallow peaked back (iori-mune); length (nagasa): 6 sun, 5.5 bu (19.9cm); curvature (sori): none, but with slight uchizori.
Forging pattern (jihada): wood grain (itame).
Tempering pattern (hamon): shallow swells (gonome) with some sudare-ba in nioi and ko-nie.
Point (boshi): outside: midare-komi with long kaeri; inside: extremely long (approximately 3.5cm.) hakikake extending to the point.
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): regular Bizen type; file marks (yasurime): sujikai; end (nakagojiri): rounded (kurijiri); holes (mekugi-ana): two (both double); signature (mei): Sukesada saku.
Shirasaya.
Aikuchi koshirae in elaborate silver and gold mounts, Edo period (third quarter 19th century) in Yanagawa style, comprising: a saya decorated with masses of butterflies on a sparse nashiji ground, executed in togidashi usu-nashiji and mounted with silver and gold kojiri, kurikata and uragawara; the tsuka wrapped in red baleen and mounted with gold menuki formed as flowering cabbage peony and a pair of fuchi-kashira en suite to the saya fittings. Kozuka and kogai in silver and gold and heavily worked in high relief with peony blossoms and foliage; a kozuka inscribed Yanagawa Naomasa.-- Length of koshirae 37.2cm.; length of tsuka 9.8cm.; length of kogai 15.7cm.; length of kozuka 9.8cm.
Cotton storage bag.
MUROMACHI PERIOD, CIRCA 1500, SIGNED SUKESADA SAKU
Configuration (sugata): flat (hira-zukuri) with shallow peaked back (iori-mune); length (nagasa): 6 sun, 5.5 bu (19.9cm); curvature (sori): none, but with slight uchizori.
Forging pattern (jihada): wood grain (itame).
Tempering pattern (hamon): shallow swells (gonome) with some sudare-ba in nioi and ko-nie.
Point (boshi): outside: midare-komi with long kaeri; inside: extremely long (approximately 3.5cm.) hakikake extending to the point.
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): regular Bizen type; file marks (yasurime): sujikai; end (nakagojiri): rounded (kurijiri); holes (mekugi-ana): two (both double); signature (mei): Sukesada saku.
Shirasaya.
Aikuchi koshirae in elaborate silver and gold mounts, Edo period (third quarter 19th century) in Yanagawa style, comprising: a saya decorated with masses of butterflies on a sparse nashiji ground, executed in togidashi usu-nashiji and mounted with silver and gold kojiri, kurikata and uragawara; the tsuka wrapped in red baleen and mounted with gold menuki formed as flowering cabbage peony and a pair of fuchi-kashira en suite to the saya fittings. Kozuka and kogai in silver and gold and heavily worked in high relief with peony blossoms and foliage; a kozuka inscribed Yanagawa Naomasa.-- Length of koshirae 37.2cm.; length of tsuka 9.8cm.; length of kogai 15.7cm.; length of kozuka 9.8cm.
Cotton storage bag.
來源
G. Winthrop Brown Collection, Parke-Bernet, New York, November 15, 1940
Kano Oshima, New York
Masakata Katayama, New York
Kano Oshima, New York
Masakata Katayama, New York