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A SHINSHINTO MUSASHI TACHI
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1850), SIGNED YAMAURA TAMAKI MASAYUKI
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and large point (o-kissaki); length (nagasa): 2 shaku, 7 sun, 8 bu (84.3cm.); curvature (sori): torii-zori of 2.0cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 0.5cm.; carving (horimono): bo-hi on both sides.
Forging pattern (jihada): itame mokume.
Tempering pattern (hamon): irregular clove-like patterns (choji midare) in nie and nioi with coarse 'swept sands' (sunagashi) appearing in both the outside and inside monouchi.
Point (boshi): midare-komi.
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): regular, tapering and of pronounced length (25.8cm.); file marks (yasurime): kesho-yasuri; end (nakagojiri): rounded (kurijiri); holes (mekugi-ana): two (one being a shinobi-ana); signature (tachimei): Yamaura Tamaki Masayuki.
Shirasaya with inscription signed Kunzan (Homma Junji).
Handachi koshirae comprising: a kawari nuri saya; a tsuka mounted with mismatched menuki and a shakudo fuchi-kashira with an ishime surface; a tsuba of rounded rectangular form with a wood grain surface--length of koshirae 120.7cm; length of tsuka 32.8cm.; tsuba height 8.3cm., width 7.4cm., thickness 6mm. Minor dents, chips and scratches to the saya.
Silk storage bag.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 366209; a koshu tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 18796; a tokubetsu kicho koshirae certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 150, dated July 18, 1979.
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1850), SIGNED YAMAURA TAMAKI MASAYUKI
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and large point (o-kissaki); length (nagasa): 2 shaku, 7 sun, 8 bu (84.3cm.); curvature (sori): torii-zori of 2.0cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 0.5cm.; carving (horimono): bo-hi on both sides.
Forging pattern (jihada): itame mokume.
Tempering pattern (hamon): irregular clove-like patterns (choji midare) in nie and nioi with coarse 'swept sands' (sunagashi) appearing in both the outside and inside monouchi.
Point (boshi): midare-komi.
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): regular, tapering and of pronounced length (25.8cm.); file marks (yasurime): kesho-yasuri; end (nakagojiri): rounded (kurijiri); holes (mekugi-ana): two (one being a shinobi-ana); signature (tachimei): Yamaura Tamaki Masayuki.
Shirasaya with inscription signed Kunzan (Homma Junji).
Handachi koshirae comprising: a kawari nuri saya; a tsuka mounted with mismatched menuki and a shakudo fuchi-kashira with an ishime surface; a tsuba of rounded rectangular form with a wood grain surface--length of koshirae 120.7cm; length of tsuka 32.8cm.; tsuba height 8.3cm., width 7.4cm., thickness 6mm. Minor dents, chips and scratches to the saya.
Silk storage bag.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 366209; a koshu tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 18796; a tokubetsu kicho koshirae certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 150, dated July 18, 1979.