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AN OSAKA TSUDA WAKIZASHI
EDO PERIOD, DATED TENWA 2 (1682), SIGNED TSUDA (NO) KAMI SUKENAO
Sugata: with shinogi-zukuri, iori-mune and chu-kissaki; nagasa: 1 shaku, 7 sun, 8 bu (54.1cm.); sori: koshi-zori of 1.0cm. Jihada: itame with chikei. Hamon: notare with ko-gonome and with some scattered ashi and traces of sunagashi. Boshi: chu-maru. nakago. keitai: regular and ubu; yasurime: kesho-yasuri; nakagojiri: iri-yamagata; mekugi-ana: one; katanamei: Tsuda Omi (no) Kami Sukenao; jidai: Tenwa 2-nen 2-gatsu hi (a day in the 2nd month of Tenwa 2 [1682]). Shirasaya; silk storage bag.
EDO PERIOD, DATED TENWA 2 (1682), SIGNED TSUDA (NO) KAMI SUKENAO
Sugata: with shinogi-zukuri, iori-mune and chu-kissaki; nagasa: 1 shaku, 7 sun, 8 bu (54.1cm.); sori: koshi-zori of 1.0cm. Jihada: itame with chikei. Hamon: notare with ko-gonome and with some scattered ashi and traces of sunagashi. Boshi: chu-maru. nakago. keitai: regular and ubu; yasurime: kesho-yasuri; nakagojiri: iri-yamagata; mekugi-ana: one; katanamei: Tsuda Omi (no) Kami Sukenao; jidai: Tenwa 2-nen 2-gatsu hi (a day in the 2nd month of Tenwa 2 [1682]). Shirasaya; silk storage bag.
Provenance
William Henry Tilley, London
Christie's, London, 14 November 1967, lot 132.
Christie's, London, 14 November 1967, lot 132.