OSAKA--TAMBA
AN OSAKA TAMBA KATANA
Details
AN OSAKA TAMBA KATANA
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1650), SIGNED TAMBA [NO] KAMI YOSHIMICHI
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and medium point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 2 shaku, 3 sun, 6 bu (71.7cm.); curvature (sori): koshi-zori of 1.2cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 1.0cm.
Forging pattern (jihada): 'pear-skin' (nashiji) with some insinuation of masame.
Tempering pattern (hamon): slight sudare with sugu-o-midare with pockets of nie and with 'swept sands' (sunagashi).
Point (boshi): flame-brushed tip (hakikake) with prominent nie. Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): pointedly tapering and unshortened (ubu); file marks (yasurime): sujikai; end (nakagojiri): two (one being a shinobi-ana); signature (katanamei): Tamba [no] Kami Yoshimichi; inside: kin-zogan tameshigiri attestation, dated Kambun 11 (1671), signed Yamano Kenjuro Hishide with kao.
Shirasaya with attestation by Sato Kanzan.
Koshirae, comprising: naval Gunto Mounts set on the back of the grip with a silver jomon of the Saigusa family.-- Length of koshirae 103cm.
Silk storage bag
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 144643, dated Showa 43 (1968).
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1650), SIGNED TAMBA [NO] KAMI YOSHIMICHI
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and medium point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 2 shaku, 3 sun, 6 bu (71.7cm.); curvature (sori): koshi-zori of 1.2cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 1.0cm.
Forging pattern (jihada): 'pear-skin' (nashiji) with some insinuation of masame.
Tempering pattern (hamon): slight sudare with sugu-o-midare with pockets of nie and with 'swept sands' (sunagashi).
Point (boshi): flame-brushed tip (hakikake) with prominent nie. Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): pointedly tapering and unshortened (ubu); file marks (yasurime): sujikai; end (nakagojiri): two (one being a shinobi-ana); signature (katanamei): Tamba [no] Kami Yoshimichi; inside: kin-zogan tameshigiri attestation, dated Kambun 11 (1671), signed Yamano Kenjuro Hishide with kao.
Shirasaya with attestation by Sato Kanzan.
Koshirae, comprising: naval Gunto Mounts set on the back of the grip with a silver jomon of the Saigusa family.-- Length of koshirae 103cm.
Silk storage bag
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 144643, dated Showa 43 (1968).
Provenance
John Gottschalk, New York