Lot Essay
Originally from the Bitchu Mizuta school, Kunishige was a student of Kawachi (no) Kami Kunisuke, founder of the Osaka Kunisuke school, who himself was a student of Kunihiro.
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AN OSAKA KUNISUKE WAKIZASHI
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1680), SIGNED KISHINMARU KUNISHIGE
Sugata: with shinogi-zukuri, iori-mune and chu-kissaki; nagasa: 1 shaku, 8 sun (54.6cm.); sori: koshi-zori of 1.3cm.; fumbari: 0.9cm. Jihada: ko-itame with scattered ji-nie. Hamon: a wide-banded gonome notare in bright nie and with scattered, ragged patches of nie flitting through the midsection of the hamon. Boshi: ko-maru with medium kaeri. Nakago. keitai: ura: wide, tapering and with a moist, brown patina; yasurime: kesho-yasuri; nakagojiri: ha-agari kuri-jiri; mekugi-ana: one; katanamei: Kishinmaru Kunishige. Shirasaya; silk storage bag.
Accompanied by a Tokubetsu kicho ninteisho, no. 144687, dated Showa 43 (1968), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1680), SIGNED KISHINMARU KUNISHIGE
Sugata: with shinogi-zukuri, iori-mune and chu-kissaki; nagasa: 1 shaku, 8 sun (54.6cm.); sori: koshi-zori of 1.3cm.; fumbari: 0.9cm. Jihada: ko-itame with scattered ji-nie. Hamon: a wide-banded gonome notare in bright nie and with scattered, ragged patches of nie flitting through the midsection of the hamon. Boshi: ko-maru with medium kaeri. Nakago. keitai: ura: wide, tapering and with a moist, brown patina; yasurime: kesho-yasuri; nakagojiri: ha-agari kuri-jiri; mekugi-ana: one; katanamei: Kishinmaru Kunishige. Shirasaya; silk storage bag.
Accompanied by a Tokubetsu kicho ninteisho, no. 144687, dated Showa 43 (1968), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.
Provenance
Colonel Royal Gervais, Sarasota, Florida