细节
AN ECHIZEN SHIMOSAKA OMI YARI
EDO PERIOD, DATED KAN-EI 5 (1628), SIGNED NI OITE ECHIZEN TOYOHARA--HYUGA DAIJO FUJIWARA SADATSUGU
Configuration (sugata): yari; length (nagasa): 3 shaku, 0 sun, 4 bu (91.6cm.); carving (horimono): outside (omote): bo-hi.
Forging pattern (jihada): straight wood grain (masame).
Tempering pattern (hamon): wide tempering with some irregular waves (suguba notare) in nioi and good nie and on both sides are large spots of faint tempering (hitatsura) in the forged area.
Point (boshi): small rounded (ko-maru).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): long (87.7cm.), tapering, of rectangular section and ubu; file marks (yasurime): kiri-yasuri; end (nakagojiri): squared (kiri-jiri); holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (mei): ni oite Echizen Toyohara--Hyuga Daijo Fujiwara Sadatsugu; date (jidai): Kan-ei 5-nen 8-gatsu hi--nijup'pon no uchi (a day in the 8th month of Kan-ei 8 [1628], one of a group of twenty.
Shirasaya.
Cotton storage bag.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate, no. 144699, Showa 43 (1968), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.