拍品 221
221
A BIZEN OSAFUNE KEN

细节
A BIZEN OSAFUNE KEN
NAMBOKUCHO PERIOD, DATED MEITOKU 5 (1394), SIGNED BISHU OSAFUNE (NO) JU MORIMITSU

Configuration (sugata): ken; length (nagasa): 7 sun, 6 bu (23.2 cm.); carving (horimono): goma-bashi and bonji on both sides.
Forging pattern (jihada): dense and silk-like wood grain (ko-itame).
Tempering pattern (hamon): small irregular patterns (ko-midare) with some clove patterns (choji) in places and ashi, all in ko-nie widening towards the monouchi and narrowing drastically towards the hamachi and boshi.
Point (boshi): tight and pointed (ko-maru).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): wide Bizen with a moist, brown patina; end (nakagojiri): rounded (kuri-jiri); holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (katanamei): Bishu Osafune (no) ju Moritsugu; date (jidai): Meitoku 5-nen 8-gatsu hi (a day in the 8th month of Meitoku 5 [1394]).

Shirasaya.


Aikuchi-koshirae comprising: a black lacquer saya decorated with black ishime clouds; the black ishime tsuka is decorated with black lacquer clouds and set with shakudo, copper and gold menuki in the form of Kanzan and Jittoku; iron (not original) wari-kogai decorated with gold nunome foliage and silver ends, unsigned; the koshirae circa 1700--length of koshirae 40.5cm.; length of tsuka 10.5cm.; length of wari-kogai 15.9cm.

Three silk storage bags; wood storage box.

Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho koshirae certificate, no. 40232, Showa 34 (1958), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.
展览
Compton, Homma, Sato, Ogawa (1976), no. 24.

拍品专文

The ken is a rare work of the Nambokucho period, although it is not known to which branch of the Osafune school this smith belongs; several smiths of the same name are recorded, but no other blades by this particular smith are known to exist.

The hamon is unusual for a Bizen because of with the peculiar way in which the nie is arranged; without the signature, one would assign the piece to the Rai School. The jigane and the way in which the ashi branch off do suggest a Bizen style. The blade might be considered a deki-gawari or freak blade because of the combination of styles.