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A BITCHU MIZUTA YARI
MOMOYAMA PERIOD (CIRCA 1595), SIGNED BITCHU (NO) KUNI ASABE (NO) JU OTSUKI SABUROBEIJO KUNISHIGE SAKU (PROBABLY KUNISHIGE II)
Configuration (sugata): yari; length (nagasa): 1 shaku, 7 bu (32.6cm.); carving (horimono): koshi-hi.
Forging pattern (jihada): wood grain (itame).
Tempering pattern (hamon): large invections (gonome) and with free tempering (tobiyaki).
Point (boshi): medium round (chu-maru).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): rectangular section and tapering; end (nakagojiri): squared (kiri-jiri); holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (mei): Bitchu (no) Kuni Asabe (no) ju Otsuki Saburobeijo Kunishige saku.
Shirasaya with attestation by Homma Junji.
Silk storage bag.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate, no. 5504104, Showa 55 (1980); and a koshu tokubetsu kicho token certificate, no. 19926, Showa 55 (1980), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.
Together with its original saya.
MOMOYAMA PERIOD (CIRCA 1595), SIGNED BITCHU (NO) KUNI ASABE (NO) JU OTSUKI SABUROBEIJO KUNISHIGE SAKU (PROBABLY KUNISHIGE II)
Configuration (sugata): yari; length (nagasa): 1 shaku, 7 bu (32.6cm.); carving (horimono): koshi-hi.
Forging pattern (jihada): wood grain (itame).
Tempering pattern (hamon): large invections (gonome) and with free tempering (tobiyaki).
Point (boshi): medium round (chu-maru).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): rectangular section and tapering; end (nakagojiri): squared (kiri-jiri); holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (mei): Bitchu (no) Kuni Asabe (no) ju Otsuki Saburobeijo Kunishige saku.
Shirasaya with attestation by Homma Junji.
Silk storage bag.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate, no. 5504104, Showa 55 (1980); and a koshu tokubetsu kicho token certificate, no. 19926, Showa 55 (1980), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.
Together with its original saya.