Details
A SHOWA TANTO
DATED 1978 AND SIGNED, TOSHIHIRA
Configuration (sugata): flat (hira-zukuri) with tri-bevelled back (mitsu-mune); length (nagasa): 8 sun, 1 bu (24.7cm.); curvature (sori): muzori.
Forging pattern (jihada): extremely fine wood grain (itame).
Tempering pattern (hamon): suguba.
Point (boshi): small and rounded (ko-maru) with medium kaeri.
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): wide Bizen style; file marks (yasurime): sujikai; end (nakagojiri): rounded (kurijiri); holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (mei): Toshihira, dated Showa 53 (1978), 3rd month.
Shirasaya.
DATED 1978 AND SIGNED, TOSHIHIRA
Configuration (sugata): flat (hira-zukuri) with tri-bevelled back (mitsu-mune); length (nagasa): 8 sun, 1 bu (24.7cm.); curvature (sori): muzori.
Forging pattern (jihada): extremely fine wood grain (itame).
Tempering pattern (hamon): suguba.
Point (boshi): small and rounded (ko-maru) with medium kaeri.
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): wide Bizen style; file marks (yasurime): sujikai; end (nakagojiri): rounded (kurijiri); holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (mei): Toshihira, dated Showa 53 (1978), 3rd month.
Shirasaya.