Details
AN OSAFUNE BIZEN YOROIDOSHI TANTO
MUROMACHI PERIOD, DATED 1567, SIGNED BISHU [NO] JU OSAFUNE SHINJURO HARUMITSU SAKU
Configuration (sugata): flat (hira-zukuri) with shallow peaked back (iori-mune); length (nagasa): 7 sun, 9.5 bu (24.2cm.); curvature (sori): none.
Forging pattern (jihada): medium wood grain with ji-nie.
Tempering pattern (hamon): wide suguba in ko-nie.
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): wide, Bizen type; file marks (yasurime): sujikai; end (nakagojiri): ha-agari kurijiri; holes (mekugi-ana): two (one plugged); signature (mei): Bishu [no] ju Osafune Shinjuro Harumitsu saku, dated Eiroku 10 (1567), 8th month.
Shirasaya with attestation by Honnami Nishu.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 44241, dated Showa 35 (1960).
MUROMACHI PERIOD, DATED 1567, SIGNED BISHU [NO] JU OSAFUNE SHINJURO HARUMITSU SAKU
Configuration (sugata): flat (hira-zukuri) with shallow peaked back (iori-mune); length (nagasa): 7 sun, 9.5 bu (24.2cm.); curvature (sori): none.
Forging pattern (jihada): medium wood grain with ji-nie.
Tempering pattern (hamon): wide suguba in ko-nie.
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): wide, Bizen type; file marks (yasurime): sujikai; end (nakagojiri): ha-agari kurijiri; holes (mekugi-ana): two (one plugged); signature (mei): Bishu [no] ju Osafune Shinjuro Harumitsu saku, dated Eiroku 10 (1567), 8th month.
Shirasaya with attestation by Honnami Nishu.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 44241, dated Showa 35 (1960).
Provenance
The Ikeda family, daimyo of Inshu, Tottori