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A SURUGA SHIMADA TANTO
MUROMACHI PERIOD (16TH CENTURY), ATTRIBUTED TO YOSHISUKE (GISUKE)
Sugata: osoraku-zukuri, with chu-kissaki; nagasa: 9 sun, 3 bu (28.2 cm.); sori: koshi-zori of 1.2 cm. Jihada: itame. Hamon: gonome midare in nie and nioi with nioi predominant. Boshi: midare-komi with no kaeri. Nakago, keitai: tanago-bara; yasurime: new kiri-yasuri; nakagojiri: ko kuri-jiri; mekugi-ana: two (one triple); mei, mumei; Keicho habaki made to simulate a Keicho gold koban and its kiri stamps.
Shirasaya with sayagaki by Kasumi Toshio.
Tanto koshirae: an aogai nashiji saya with spiralling black lacquer streaks, mounted with a flush silver kojiri engraved with a dragon amidst clouds; a tsuka mounted with a pair of gold menuki formed as hollyhock and stems and Yokoya school shakudo fuchi-kashira decorated with gold shishi and peony; an Edo kinko hamadashi tsuba inlaid with a boy flying a kite, height 5.3 cm., width 4/1 cm., thickness 8 mm.; a Yokoya school kozuka decorated with a gold dragon, inscribed Sorin with kao; slight chips to the saya. Silk storage bags.
Accompanied by a Futsu kicho ninteisho, no number, dated Showa 34 (1959), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.
MUROMACHI PERIOD (16TH CENTURY), ATTRIBUTED TO YOSHISUKE (GISUKE)
Sugata: osoraku-zukuri, with chu-kissaki; nagasa: 9 sun, 3 bu (28.2 cm.); sori: koshi-zori of 1.2 cm. Jihada: itame. Hamon: gonome midare in nie and nioi with nioi predominant. Boshi: midare-komi with no kaeri. Nakago, keitai: tanago-bara; yasurime: new kiri-yasuri; nakagojiri: ko kuri-jiri; mekugi-ana: two (one triple); mei, mumei; Keicho habaki made to simulate a Keicho gold koban and its kiri stamps.
Shirasaya with sayagaki by Kasumi Toshio.
Tanto koshirae: an aogai nashiji saya with spiralling black lacquer streaks, mounted with a flush silver kojiri engraved with a dragon amidst clouds; a tsuka mounted with a pair of gold menuki formed as hollyhock and stems and Yokoya school shakudo fuchi-kashira decorated with gold shishi and peony; an Edo kinko hamadashi tsuba inlaid with a boy flying a kite, height 5.3 cm., width 4/1 cm., thickness 8 mm.; a Yokoya school kozuka decorated with a gold dragon, inscribed Sorin with kao; slight chips to the saya. Silk storage bags.
Accompanied by a Futsu kicho ninteisho, no number, dated Showa 34 (1959), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.
Provenance
Dr. Walter A. Compton, auction, Christie's, New York, Part I, 31 March, 1992, lot 302.