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A SHINSHINTO MUSASHI WAKIZASHI
EDO PERIOD, DATED 1814, SIGNED OITE TODAIJOKA SUISHINSHI MASAHIDE KORE[0] SAKU WITH KAO
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and medium point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 1 shaku, 9 sun (57.6cm);curvature (sori): shallow koshi-zori of 0.9cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 0.9cm.
Forging pattern (jihada): very fine 'pear-skin' pattern (nashiji).
Tempering pattern (hamon): suguba of ko-nie.
Point (boshi): outside: abrupt turn-back at mid-point; inside: small and rounded (ko-maru).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): tapering and unshortened (ubu); file marks (yasurime): ha-agari rounded (kurijiri); holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (katanamei): oite Todaijoka [Higashi Ojoka] Suishinshi Masahide kore-o saku with kao, dated Bunka 11 (1814), 2nd month.
Shirasaya with attestation signed Shunsui (Kasumi Toshio)
Wakizashi koshirae, the mounts 19th century, comprising: a brown-red lacquer, widely ribbed saya, mounted with pale shibuichi kurigata, koiguchi, kogai uragawara, kozuka uragawara and dengyu kojiri, each deeply carved with formalized scrolling foliage, shakudo and gold habaki carved shishiaibori with dragons amidst clouds; the tsuka mounted with shakudo and gold Asano family mon and gold shibuichi fuchi-kashira decorated en suite to the remainder of the fittings; an iron tsuba inlaid with one silver and four gold Asano family mon and set with a gold plate signed Tominsai Ishiguro Masatsune with kao (Masatsune III, d. 1866); the tsuba itself on both sides oite Myochin tetsu kore[o] tsukuru and dated Kei 2 (1866), 8th month and Tobu [no] ju Ryugensai Fujiwara Tsunahiro saku; an o-kozuka of pale shibuichi inlaid with Asano mon; a wari-kogai similarly decorated.-- Length of koshirae 83.6cm.; length of tsuka 20.5cm.; tsuba height 8.2cm., width 7.1cm., thickness 6mm.; length of wari-kogai 22.1cm.; length of kozuka 10.1cm.
Brocade and silk storage bags.
Accompanied by a futsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 70906, dated Showa 38 (1963).
EDO PERIOD, DATED 1814, SIGNED OITE TODAIJOKA SUISHINSHI MASAHIDE KORE[0] SAKU WITH KAO
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and medium point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 1 shaku, 9 sun (57.6cm);curvature (sori): shallow koshi-zori of 0.9cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 0.9cm.
Forging pattern (jihada): very fine 'pear-skin' pattern (nashiji).
Tempering pattern (hamon): suguba of ko-nie.
Point (boshi): outside: abrupt turn-back at mid-point; inside: small and rounded (ko-maru).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): tapering and unshortened (ubu); file marks (yasurime): ha-agari rounded (kurijiri); holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (katanamei): oite Todaijoka [Higashi Ojoka] Suishinshi Masahide kore-o saku with kao, dated Bunka 11 (1814), 2nd month.
Shirasaya with attestation signed Shunsui (Kasumi Toshio)
Wakizashi koshirae, the mounts 19th century, comprising: a brown-red lacquer, widely ribbed saya, mounted with pale shibuichi kurigata, koiguchi, kogai uragawara, kozuka uragawara and dengyu kojiri, each deeply carved with formalized scrolling foliage, shakudo and gold habaki carved shishiaibori with dragons amidst clouds; the tsuka mounted with shakudo and gold Asano family mon and gold shibuichi fuchi-kashira decorated en suite to the remainder of the fittings; an iron tsuba inlaid with one silver and four gold Asano family mon and set with a gold plate signed Tominsai Ishiguro Masatsune with kao (Masatsune III, d. 1866); the tsuba itself on both sides oite Myochin tetsu kore[o] tsukuru and dated Kei 2 (1866), 8th month and Tobu [no] ju Ryugensai Fujiwara Tsunahiro saku; an o-kozuka of pale shibuichi inlaid with Asano mon; a wari-kogai similarly decorated.-- Length of koshirae 83.6cm.; length of tsuka 20.5cm.; tsuba height 8.2cm., width 7.1cm., thickness 6mm.; length of wari-kogai 22.1cm.; length of kozuka 10.1cm.
Brocade and silk storage bags.
Accompanied by a futsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 70906, dated Showa 38 (1963).
Provenance
Aoyama family
S. Aoyama, Paris, 1961
S. Aoyama, Paris, 1961