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A SHINSHINTO EDO SUISHINSHI WAKIZASHI
LATE EDO PERIOD, DATED TEMPO 13 (1842), SIGNED DEWA (NO) KUNI SHONAI (NO) JU ICHINAO (OR KAZUNAO) SAKU
Configuration (sugata): shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and medium point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 1 shaku, 6 sun, 6 bu (50.3cm.); curvature (sori): torii-zori of 1.2cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 0.9cm.
Forging pattern (jihada): almost patternless (muji-hada), very typically shinshinto in form.
Tempering pattern (hamon): beginning with a yaki-dashi, becoming regular clove forms (choji) in fine and clear nioii.
Point (boshi): full round (o-maru).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): regular and ubu; file marks (yasurime): kesho-yasuri; end (nakagojiri): ha-agari kuri-jiri; holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (katanamei): Dewa (no) Kuni Shonai (no) ju Ichinao (or Kazunao) saku; date (jidai): Tempo 13-nen Tora 12-gatsu hi (a day in the 12th month of [the year of the] tiger Tempo 13 [1842]).
Shirasaya.
Silk storage bag.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate, no. 144688, Showa 43 (1968), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.
LATE EDO PERIOD, DATED TEMPO 13 (1842), SIGNED DEWA (NO) KUNI SHONAI (NO) JU ICHINAO (OR KAZUNAO) SAKU
Configuration (sugata): shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and medium point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 1 shaku, 6 sun, 6 bu (50.3cm.); curvature (sori): torii-zori of 1.2cm.; increase in width of blade (fumbari): 0.9cm.
Forging pattern (jihada): almost patternless (muji-hada), very typically shinshinto in form.
Tempering pattern (hamon): beginning with a yaki-dashi, becoming regular clove forms (choji) in fine and clear nioii.
Point (boshi): full round (o-maru).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): regular and ubu; file marks (yasurime): kesho-yasuri; end (nakagojiri): ha-agari kuri-jiri; holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (katanamei): Dewa (no) Kuni Shonai (no) ju Ichinao (or Kazunao) saku; date (jidai): Tempo 13-nen Tora 12-gatsu hi (a day in the 12th month of [the year of the] tiger Tempo 13 [1842]).
Shirasaya.
Silk storage bag.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate, no. 144688, Showa 43 (1968), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.
Provenance
John Gottschalk, Lakeland, Florida