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A BIZEN OSAFUNE TANTO
MUROMACHI PERIOD, DATED BUNAN 6 (1449), SIGNED BISHU OSAFUNE SUKEMITSU
Configuration (sugata): of flat, wedge section (hira-zukuri) with shallow peaked back (iori-mune); length (nagasa): 9 sun, 4 bu (28.4cm.); curvature (sori): almost none (muzori); carving (horimono): inside (ura): a single bonji; outside (omote): Fudo Myo-o descending on a dragon.
Forging pattern (jihada): lustrous and distinct small wood burl (ko-itame mokume).
Tempering pattern (hamon): irregular and clove patterns (choji midare).
Point (boshi): small rounded (ko-maru).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): Bizen and ubu; file marks (yasurime): sloping (sujikai); end (nakagojiri): rounded (kuri-jiri); holes (mekugi-ana): two; signature (katanamei): Bishu Osafune Sukemitsu; date (jidai): Bunan 6-nen 2-gatsu hi (a day in the 2nd month of Bunan 6 (1449)).
Shirasaya with attestation by Sato Kanzan.
Silk storage bag.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate, no. 144666, Showa 43 (1968); and a koshu tokubetsu kicho token certificate, no. 14712, Showa 53 (1978), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.
MUROMACHI PERIOD, DATED BUNAN 6 (1449), SIGNED BISHU OSAFUNE SUKEMITSU
Configuration (sugata): of flat, wedge section (hira-zukuri) with shallow peaked back (iori-mune); length (nagasa): 9 sun, 4 bu (28.4cm.); curvature (sori): almost none (muzori); carving (horimono): inside (ura): a single bonji; outside (omote): Fudo Myo-o descending on a dragon.
Forging pattern (jihada): lustrous and distinct small wood burl (ko-itame mokume).
Tempering pattern (hamon): irregular and clove patterns (choji midare).
Point (boshi): small rounded (ko-maru).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): Bizen and ubu; file marks (yasurime): sloping (sujikai); end (nakagojiri): rounded (kuri-jiri); holes (mekugi-ana): two; signature (katanamei): Bishu Osafune Sukemitsu; date (jidai): Bunan 6-nen 2-gatsu hi (a day in the 2nd month of Bunan 6 (1449)).
Shirasaya with attestation by Sato Kanzan.
Silk storage bag.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate, no. 144666, Showa 43 (1968); and a koshu tokubetsu kicho token certificate, no. 14712, Showa 53 (1978), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.
Provenance
Masakata Katayama, New York
Literature
Mino and Robinson (1983), no. 4.