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SHINSHINTO IWASHIRO KATANA
EDO PERIOD, DATED 1867, SIGNED YAMATO [NO] KAMI MINAMOTO HIDEKUNI
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and medium point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 2 shaku, 3 sun, 5.5 bu (71.7cm.); curvature (sori): koshi-zori of of 1.1cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 1.0cm.
Forging pattern (jihada): dense wood grain (itame) with mokume.
Tempering pattern (hamon): good medium suguba with restrained ko-nie.
Point (boshi): medium and rounded (chu-maru).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): slender, regular and unshortened (ubu); file marks (yasurime): o-sujikai kesho-yasuri; end (nakagojiri): rounded (kurijiri); holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (katanamei): Yamato [no] Kami Minamoto Hidekuni, dated Kei-o 3 (1867), 2nd month.
Shirasaya.
Katana-koshirae, Edo period (third quarter 19th century), comprising: a black lacquer saya with an ishime surface, fitted with a silver omeshi kojiri molded and worked with geese in flight over flowering plum, signed Eishinsai Yoshikage; the white silk bound tsuka mounted with a pair of gilt menuki in the form of peacocks and a soft metal fuchi-kashira molded in low relief with gold plants on a nashiji ground, signed Nomura Masahide (the eighth master of the Nomura family) [fl. 1825]; an iron Mito style tsuba carved in low relief on both sides with clouds with wild grasses, highlighted with gold dewdrops, in the foreground.-- Length of koshirae 102.4cm.; length of tsuka 25.3cm.; tsuba height 8.2cm., width 7.9cm., thickness 4mm. Slight split, chips and dents to the saya.
