Details
A MINO SEKI SCHOOL TANTO
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1650), SIGNED JUMYO
Configuration (sugata): hira-zukuri with shallow peaked back (iori-mune); length (nagasa): 7 sun, 9 bu (23.7cm.); curvature (sori): muzori.
Forging pattern (jihada): wood grain (itame).
Tempering pattern (hamon): suguba in ko-nie.
Point (boshi): small and rounded (ko-maru).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): unshortened (ubu); file marks (yasurime): sujikai; end (nakagojiri): rounded (kurijiri); holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (mei): Jumyo.
Shirasaya.
Aikuchi-koshirae comprising: a saya lacquered usu-nashiji with scattered butterflies, mounted with silver kojiri, uragawara, kurikata, o-koiguchi, the o-koiguchi inscribed Omori Teruhide; the tsuka mounted with a pair of shibuichi menuki formed as butterflies and fuchi-kashira which are of silver and deeply carved with peonies and foliage; an iron kozuka applied with a sleeping cat by peonies in shakudo and gold, unsigned.
Length of koshirae 36.9cm.; length of tsuka 10.8cm.; length of kozuka 9.8cm. Saya with old damage restored.
Silk and cotton storage bags.
Accompanied by a futsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 57968, dated Showa 36 (1961).
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1650), SIGNED JUMYO
Configuration (sugata): hira-zukuri with shallow peaked back (iori-mune); length (nagasa): 7 sun, 9 bu (23.7cm.); curvature (sori): muzori.
Forging pattern (jihada): wood grain (itame).
Tempering pattern (hamon): suguba in ko-nie.
Point (boshi): small and rounded (ko-maru).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): unshortened (ubu); file marks (yasurime): sujikai; end (nakagojiri): rounded (kurijiri); holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (mei): Jumyo.
Shirasaya.
Aikuchi-koshirae comprising: a saya lacquered usu-nashiji with scattered butterflies, mounted with silver kojiri, uragawara, kurikata, o-koiguchi, the o-koiguchi inscribed Omori Teruhide; the tsuka mounted with a pair of shibuichi menuki formed as butterflies and fuchi-kashira which are of silver and deeply carved with peonies and foliage; an iron kozuka applied with a sleeping cat by peonies in shakudo and gold, unsigned.
Length of koshirae 36.9cm.; length of tsuka 10.8cm.; length of kozuka 9.8cm. Saya with old damage restored.
Silk and cotton storage bags.
Accompanied by a futsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 57968, dated Showa 36 (1961).