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A MINO TACHI
MOMOYAMA PERIOD, DATED 1600, SIGNED NOSHU SEKI KANENORI, YAMASHIRO [NO] KUNI FUSHIMI INARI NI OITE KOREO TSUKURU
Configuration (sugata): outside: shobu-zukuri with iori-mune, inside: nagamaki-naoshi zukuri; length (nagasa): 2 shaku, 3 sun, 2 bu (70.3cm.); curvature (sori): koshi-zori of 1.7cm.; carving (horimono): outside: bo-hi ni tsure-hi with 'dragon claws' below and the bonji Aizen Myo-o above, inside: maru-dome bo-hi.
Forging pattern (jihada): wood grain (itame).
Tempering pattern (hamon): outside: undulations (gonome) with sawtooth gonome (kataochi gonome) and some markedly irregular gonome (togari gonome) in nioi; inside: generally the same, but with more togari gonome.
Point (boshi): Jizo ko-maru.
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): regular and unshortened (ubu); file marks (yasurime): new (kiri-yasuri); end (nakagojiri): saka kurijiri; holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (tachimei): Noshu Seki Kanenori, Yamashiro [no] Kuni Fushimi Inari ni oite koreo zukuru, dated Keicho 5 (1600), 2nd month.
Shirasaya.
Koshirae comprising: a black lacquer saya with streaks of red to simulate Negoro style lacquer; a samegawa tsuka mounted with a pair of gilt menuki formed as horses and a shakudo fuchi-kashira decorated with gilt horses on an ishime surface, signed Akagi Yasuyoshi with kao; an iron tsuba decorated with a gilt horse beneath a cherry tree molded and highlighted with silver blossoms, unsigned.-- Length of koshirae 97.9cm.; length of tsuka 21.8cm.; tsuba height 8.5cm., width 7.9cm., thickness
7mm.
Brocade and silk storage bags.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 85230, dated Showa 39 (1964); and an origami, Nihon token kenkyukai, signed by Nabeshima Naotsugu, no. 5435, dated Showa 56 (1981).
