Details
A MUTSU MIYOSHI WAKIZASHI
EDO PERIOD, DATED 1679, SIGNED MUTSU DAIJO MIYOSHI NAGAMICHI
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and medium point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 1 shaku, 4 sun, 2 bu (43.2cm.); curvature (sori): koshi-zori of 1.2cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 0.8 cm.
Forging pattern (jihada): fine wood grain (ko-itame).
Tempering pattern (hamon): very shallow gonome midare with 'swept sands' (sunagashi) and some 'legs' (ashi) and tobiyaki in good nie.
Point (boshi): midare-komi with short kaeri.
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): regular, slightly shortened (suriage) and with a partially shaved mune in the lower 1/3; file marks (yasurime): slanted (katte-sagari); end (nakagojiri): rounded (kurijiri); holes (mekugi-ana): two; signature (katanamei): Mutsu Daijo Miyoshi Nagamichi, dated Enpo 7 (1679), 2nd month; the inside also signed Miyoshi Magamichi kore-o yo (Miyoshi Nagamichi praises this) and dated Manen 2 (1861), 1st month, which probably refers to Nagamichi VII who shortened the blade of the first generation master.
Shirasaya.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 5504860, dated Showa 55 (1980).
EDO PERIOD, DATED 1679, SIGNED MUTSU DAIJO MIYOSHI NAGAMICHI
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and medium point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 1 shaku, 4 sun, 2 bu (43.2cm.); curvature (sori): koshi-zori of 1.2cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 0.8 cm.
Forging pattern (jihada): fine wood grain (ko-itame).
Tempering pattern (hamon): very shallow gonome midare with 'swept sands' (sunagashi) and some 'legs' (ashi) and tobiyaki in good nie.
Point (boshi): midare-komi with short kaeri.
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): regular, slightly shortened (suriage) and with a partially shaved mune in the lower 1/3; file marks (yasurime): slanted (katte-sagari); end (nakagojiri): rounded (kurijiri); holes (mekugi-ana): two; signature (katanamei): Mutsu Daijo Miyoshi Nagamichi, dated Enpo 7 (1679), 2nd month; the inside also signed Miyoshi Magamichi kore-o yo (Miyoshi Nagamichi praises this) and dated Manen 2 (1861), 1st month, which probably refers to Nagamichi VII who shortened the blade of the first generation master.
Shirasaya.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 5504860, dated Showa 55 (1980).