Details
A YAMASHIRO NOBUKUNI FUKURO YARI
MUROMACHI PERIOD (CIRCA 1400), SIGNED NOBUKUNI
Configuration (sugata): fukuro (socket) yari; length (nagasa): 7 sun, 1.5 bu (21.6cm.); carving (horimono): bonji and koshi-hi.
Forging pattern (jihada): wood grain (itame).
Tempering pattern (hamon): irregular invections (gonome) in strong nie.
Point (boshi): small rounded (ko-maru).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): of single-piece socket construction with the blade (fukuro yari); file marks (yasurime): none; holes (mekugi-ana): two; signature (mei): Nobukuni.
Shirasaya.
Accompanied by a futsu kicho token certificate, no. 144691, Showa 43 (1968), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.
MUROMACHI PERIOD (CIRCA 1400), SIGNED NOBUKUNI
Configuration (sugata): fukuro (socket) yari; length (nagasa): 7 sun, 1.5 bu (21.6cm.); carving (horimono): bonji and koshi-hi.
Forging pattern (jihada): wood grain (itame).
Tempering pattern (hamon): irregular invections (gonome) in strong nie.
Point (boshi): small rounded (ko-maru).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): of single-piece socket construction with the blade (fukuro yari); file marks (yasurime): none; holes (mekugi-ana): two; signature (mei): Nobukuni.
Shirasaya.
Accompanied by a futsu kicho token certificate, no. 144691, Showa 43 (1968), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.
Provenance
David Strasser Collection, auction, New York 1913.
James Goodspeed, Washington, D.C.
James Goodspeed, Washington, D.C.