Lot Essay
A very similar wakizashi from the Collection of Walter A. Compton was sold in these rooms March 31, 1992, lot 326
Details
A KYOTO MISHINA WAKIZASHI
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1650), SIGNED TAMBA (NO) KAMI YOSHIMICHI (YOSHIMICHI II)
Configuration (sugata):with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and medium point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 1 shaku, 4 sun, 9 bu (45.3 cm.); curvature (sori): torii-zori of 1.2 cm.; decrease in width of blade (fumbari): 0.8 cm.
Forging pattern (jihada): small wood grain (itame) approaching 'pear skin' (nashiji).
Tempering pattern (hamon): vigorous 'split-bamboo curtains' (sudare-ba) in bright ko-nie and springing from a lengthy Osaka yakidashi.
Point (boshi): very small rounded (ko-maru).
Tang (nakago) shape (keitai): slender, tapering, ubu and with a dry, brown patina; file marks (yasurime): strongly sloping (o-sujikai); end (nakagojiri): iri-yamagata; holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (mei), katana-mei: Tamba (no) Kami Yoshimichi. [A 1.3 cm. ware on the omote shinogi-ji 2.5 cm. from the mune-machi.]
Shirasaya and silk storage bag.
Accompanied by a Hozon Token certificate, no. 18277. Showa 54 (1979), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1650), SIGNED TAMBA (NO) KAMI YOSHIMICHI (YOSHIMICHI II)
Configuration (sugata):with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and medium point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 1 shaku, 4 sun, 9 bu (45.3 cm.); curvature (sori): torii-zori of 1.2 cm.; decrease in width of blade (fumbari): 0.8 cm.
Forging pattern (jihada): small wood grain (itame) approaching 'pear skin' (nashiji).
Tempering pattern (hamon): vigorous 'split-bamboo curtains' (sudare-ba) in bright ko-nie and springing from a lengthy Osaka yakidashi.
Point (boshi): very small rounded (ko-maru).
Tang (nakago) shape (keitai): slender, tapering, ubu and with a dry, brown patina; file marks (yasurime): strongly sloping (o-sujikai); end (nakagojiri): iri-yamagata; holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (mei), katana-mei: Tamba (no) Kami Yoshimichi. [A 1.3 cm. ware on the omote shinogi-ji 2.5 cm. from the mune-machi.]
Shirasaya and silk storage bag.
Accompanied by a Hozon Token certificate, no. 18277. Showa 54 (1979), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.