EDO--NAGASONE
A NAGASONE SCHOOL WAKIZASHI
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A NAGASONE SCHOOL WAKIZASHI
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1673), SIGNED NAGASONE NE OKIMASA
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and medium point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 1 shaku, 8 sun, 8 bu (57.2cm); curvature (sori): koshi-zori of 1.4cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 0.9cm.; carving (horimono): kaki-nagashi wide grooves (bo-hi) on both sides.
Forging pattern (jihada): wood grain (itame mokume).
Tempering pattern (hamon): shallow gonome midare becoming slightly clove-like (choji) in the monouchi and with good 'swept sands' (sunagashi) in the lower half of the blade; executed in spirited ko-nie and some nie.
Point (boshi): flame-brushed tip (hakikake).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): unshortened (ubu); file marks (yasurime): (katte-sagari); end (nakagojiri): rounded (kurijiri); holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (katanamei): Nagasone Ne (ancestral shrine) Okimasa.
Shirasaya with attestation by Sato Kanzan.
Uchigatana koshirae comprising: a vermillion saya fitted with an iron omeshi kojiri; the tsuka mounted with a pair of Goto style shakudo and gold menuki in the form of horses and a fuchi-kashira; an iron Katchushi square tsuba with bevelled corners pierced with butterfly ryo-hitsu; and a Goto school set of shakudo kogai and kozuka emblazoned with raised gilt aoimon of the Tokugawa family, unsigned.-- Length of koshirae 80.7cm; length of tsuka 19.3cm.; tsuba height 7.2cm., width 7.2 cm., thickness 5mm.; length of kogai 21cm.; length of kozuka 9.8cm.
Brocade and silk storage bags.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no number, dated Showa 30 (1955); and a koshu tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 8789, dated Showa 51 (1976); and a tokubetsu kicho koshirae certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 0006, dated Showa 47 (1972).
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1673), SIGNED NAGASONE NE OKIMASA
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and medium point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 1 shaku, 8 sun, 8 bu (57.2cm); curvature (sori): koshi-zori of 1.4cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 0.9cm.; carving (horimono): kaki-nagashi wide grooves (bo-hi) on both sides.
Forging pattern (jihada): wood grain (itame mokume).
Tempering pattern (hamon): shallow gonome midare becoming slightly clove-like (choji) in the monouchi and with good 'swept sands' (sunagashi) in the lower half of the blade; executed in spirited ko-nie and some nie.
Point (boshi): flame-brushed tip (hakikake).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): unshortened (ubu); file marks (yasurime): (katte-sagari); end (nakagojiri): rounded (kurijiri); holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (katanamei): Nagasone Ne (ancestral shrine) Okimasa.
Shirasaya with attestation by Sato Kanzan.
Uchigatana koshirae comprising: a vermillion saya fitted with an iron omeshi kojiri; the tsuka mounted with a pair of Goto style shakudo and gold menuki in the form of horses and a fuchi-kashira; an iron Katchushi square tsuba with bevelled corners pierced with butterfly ryo-hitsu; and a Goto school set of shakudo kogai and kozuka emblazoned with raised gilt aoimon of the Tokugawa family, unsigned.-- Length of koshirae 80.7cm; length of tsuka 19.3cm.; tsuba height 7.2cm., width 7.2 cm., thickness 5mm.; length of kogai 21cm.; length of kozuka 9.8cm.
Brocade and silk storage bags.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no number, dated Showa 30 (1955); and a koshu tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 8789, dated Showa 51 (1976); and a tokubetsu kicho koshirae certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 0006, dated Showa 47 (1972).
Provenance
Henry Tilley
John Harding
John Harding