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A SHINSHINTO EDO SUISHINSHI KO-WAKIZASHI
EDO PERIOD, DATED TEMPO 8 (1837), SIGNED FUJIWARA MASATSUGU WITH KAO
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and large point (o-kissaki); length (nagasa): 1 shaku, 5 sun, 4 bu (46.7cm.); curvature (sori): torii-zori of 1.2cm.; carving (horimono): inside (ura): Kongara Doji standing on a cloud above waves, outside (omote): Seitaka Doji in a similar posture; both being attendants to Fudo Myo-o.
Forging pattern (jihada): irregular rolling patterns (gonome) with some clove-like and erratic tempering (choji midare) in excellent nioi and nie and with extensive 'swept sands' (sunagashi) and some kinsuji; the choji midare tends to be most evident in the lower half of the hamon and the area from mid-point to the yokote is dominated by the gonome. The general effect is that of a So-den Bizen blade, a characteristic of tempering frequently seen in the earlier works of Masatsugu.
Point (boshi): gonome-komi with extensive nie and finishing in an irregular small point (ko-maru) and with kaeri extending only to the koshinogi.
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): wide, slightly tapering and slightly uplifted; file marks (yasurime): kesho-yasuri; holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (katanamei): Fujiwara Masatsugu with kao; date (jidai): Tempo 8 hinoto-tori nen chushu (mid-autumn of Tenpo 8 [1837], year of the cock).
Shirasaya.
Silk storage bag.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate, no. 374880, Showa 54 (1979); and a koshu tokubetsu kicho token certificate, no. 19237, Showa 54 (1979), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.
