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A KII KISHU ISHIDO KATANA
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1625), SIGNED TOSA SHOGEN TAMEYASU
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and medium point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 2 shaku, 3 sun, 2 bu (70.3cm.); curvature (sori): koshi-zori of 1.2cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 1.0cm.
Forging pattern (jihada): dense and compact 'pear-skin' (nashiji).
Tempering pattern (hamon): very elegant and slender saka-choji of an Ichimonji persuasion.
Point (boshi): small and rounded (ko-maru).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): slender, tapering and unshortened (ubu); file marks (yasurime): o-sujikai; end (nakagojiri): kengyo; holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (katanamei): Tosa Shogen Tameyasu; inside: a stem of flowering kiku.
Shirasaya with attestation by Sato Kanzan.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 144641, dated Showa 43 (1968); and a koshu tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 8797, dated Showa 51 (1976).
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1625), SIGNED TOSA SHOGEN TAMEYASU
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and medium point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 2 shaku, 3 sun, 2 bu (70.3cm.); curvature (sori): koshi-zori of 1.2cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 1.0cm.
Forging pattern (jihada): dense and compact 'pear-skin' (nashiji).
Tempering pattern (hamon): very elegant and slender saka-choji of an Ichimonji persuasion.
Point (boshi): small and rounded (ko-maru).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): slender, tapering and unshortened (ubu); file marks (yasurime): o-sujikai; end (nakagojiri): kengyo; holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (katanamei): Tosa Shogen Tameyasu; inside: a stem of flowering kiku.
Shirasaya with attestation by Sato Kanzan.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 144641, dated Showa 43 (1968); and a koshu tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 8797, dated Showa 51 (1976).
Provenance
Fairclough, London