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A KYOTO TACHI OF TWO GENERATIONS
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1670), SIGNED DAI HOSHI HOKKYO RAI EISEN AND (KIKU) IZUMI [NO] KAMI RAI KINMICHI (MINMICHI I AND KINMICHI II)
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and medium point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 2 shaku, 5 sun, 2 bu (76.5cm); curvature (sori): remarkably strong torii-zori of 4.2cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 1.4cm.; thickness: 1.1cm.
Forging pattern (jihada): dense and very fine nashiji.
Tempering pattern (hamon): toran in ko-nie with numerous 'pearl' and 'crescent moon' tobiyaki.
Point (boshi): medium and rounded (chu-maru).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): regular and with little tapering; file marks (yasurime): o-sujikai; end (nakagojiri): ha-agari kurijiri; holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (mei): outside: (Kiku) Izumi [no] Kami Rai Kinmichi (Kinmichi I); inside: Dai Hoshi Hokkyo Rai Eisen (Kinmichi II).
Shirasaya.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 144653, dated Showa 43 (1968); and a koshu tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 19579, dated Showa 55 (1980).
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1670), SIGNED DAI HOSHI HOKKYO RAI EISEN AND (KIKU) IZUMI [NO] KAMI RAI KINMICHI (MINMICHI I AND KINMICHI II)
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and medium point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 2 shaku, 5 sun, 2 bu (76.5cm); curvature (sori): remarkably strong torii-zori of 4.2cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 1.4cm.; thickness: 1.1cm.
Forging pattern (jihada): dense and very fine nashiji.
Tempering pattern (hamon): toran in ko-nie with numerous 'pearl' and 'crescent moon' tobiyaki.
Point (boshi): medium and rounded (chu-maru).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): regular and with little tapering; file marks (yasurime): o-sujikai; end (nakagojiri): ha-agari kurijiri; holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (mei): outside: (Kiku) Izumi [no] Kami Rai Kinmichi (Kinmichi I); inside: Dai Hoshi Hokkyo Rai Eisen (Kinmichi II).
Shirasaya.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 144653, dated Showa 43 (1968); and a koshu tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 19579, dated Showa 55 (1980).
Provenance
John Yumoto, San Mateo, California