AN ECHIZEN SHIMOSAKA UTSUSHI SADAMUNE TANTO

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AN ECHIZEN SHIMOSAKA UTSUSHI SADAMUNE TANTO
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1605), SIGNED OITE BUSHU ECHIZEN YASUTSUGU (YASUTSUGU I)

Configuration (sugata): of flat, wedge section (hira-zukuri) with tri-bevelled back (mitsu-mune); length (nagasa): 1 shaku, 2 bu (30.8cm.); curvature (sori): almost none.
Forging pattern (jihada): superb small burl (ko-mokume).
Tempering pattern (hamon): scatteded shallow waves (notare) with small irregular formations (komidare) in bright nie.
Point (boshi): small point (ko-maru).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): regular with rising bottom and with a moist, brown patina; end (nakagojiri): V (kengyo); holes (mekugi-ana): two; signature (katana-mei): oite Bushu Echizen Yasutsugu.

Shirasaya with attestation by Homma Junji.

Silk storage bag.

Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate, no. 372059, Showa 54 (1979); and a koshu tokubetsu kicho token certificate, no. 19101, Showa 54 (1979), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.

來源

Michael Dean, London

拍品專文

See N.B.T.H.K., Juyo token to zufu, vol. 3, no. 41 for an example of this shushu-uchi type of signature.

With the mitsu-mune, configuration, kitae, ji and hamon of this blade, it is evident it was made as a copy of Sadamune. Dr. Homma illustrates two examples (Showa dai meito zufu, nos. 111 and 115), a National Treasure and an Important Cultural Property, both with carving which display the same characteristics that Yasutsugu sought to recreate.