Lot 263
263
A KYO HORIKAWA YARI

Details
A KYO HORIKAWA YARI
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1620), SIGNED HEIANJO (NO) JU FUJIWARA TOKIKUNI (HEIANJO TADAKUNI I)

Configuration (Sugata): yari hirasansaku-zukuri; length (nagasa): 1 shaku, 1 bu (30.4cm.).
Forging pattern (jihada): large wood grain (o-itame).
Tempering pattern (hamon): medium suguba with matching waves (notare) on both sides to form two pinched sections, executed in ko-nie.
Point (boshi): medium rounded (chu-maru).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): slender, tapering, of rectangular section and ubu; file marks (yasurime): vertical; end (nakagojiri): small rounded (kuri-jiri); holes (mekugi-ana): two (one being a shinobi-ana, a secondary hole for additional security); signature (mei): Heianjo (no) ju Fujiwara Tokikuni.

Shirasaya.

Silk storage bag.

Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate, no. 151638, Showa 43 (1968), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.
Provenance
James Goodspeed, Washington, D.C.

Lot Essay

Born Yamamoto Hachirodayu, Tadakuni (1576-1650) studied in Kyoto under both Horikawa Kunihiro and Dewa Daijo Kunimichi. His earliest works use the name Tokikuni which he later changed to Tadakuni. He moved to Inaba Province and in Kanei 11 (1634) he received the honorific title of Shinano Daijo and changed his signature to Shinano Daijo Fujiwara Tadakuni; because of his relocation, reference works also list him as Inaba Tadakuni.

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