Details
A TAMBA KATANA
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1675), SIGNED KIKU/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, 4 sun, 6 bu (74.8cm.); increase in width of blade (fumbari): 1.1cm.
Forging pattern (jihada): fine running wood grain (itame). Tempering pattern (hamon): extremely wide suguba with some small pointed undulations (ko-notare) with extensive, very heavy and blatant sudare-ba.
Point (boshi): small and rounded (ko-maru); inside: hakikake.
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): tapering and unshortened (ubu); file marks (yasurime): sujikai; end (nakagojiri): iriyamagata; holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (katanamei): Kiku/Tamba [no] Kami Yoshimichi.
Shirasaya.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 55504, dated Showa 36 (1961).
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1675), SIGNED KIKU/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, 4 sun, 6 bu (74.8cm.); increase in width of blade (fumbari): 1.1cm.
Forging pattern (jihada): fine running wood grain (itame). Tempering pattern (hamon): extremely wide suguba with some small pointed undulations (ko-notare) with extensive, very heavy and blatant sudare-ba.
Point (boshi): small and rounded (ko-maru); inside: hakikake.
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): tapering and unshortened (ubu); file marks (yasurime): sujikai; end (nakagojiri): iriyamagata; holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (katanamei): Kiku/Tamba [no] Kami Yoshimichi.
Shirasaya.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 55504, dated Showa 36 (1961).
Provenance
Lillard P. Miller, San Antonio, Texas