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AN IZUMO FUYUHIRO KATANA
MIDDLE EDO PERIOD (SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY), SIGNED UNSHU (NO) JU FUJIWARA FUYUHIRO, ATTRIBUTED TO TAKAMATSUZENZO FUYUHIRO
Sugata: with shinogi-zukuri, iori-mune and chu-kissaki; nagasa: 2 shaku, 2 sun, 9 bu (69.4 cm.); sori: koshi-zori of 0.8 cm.; fumbari: 1.1 cm. Jihada: itame masame. Hamon: suguba in nioi and ko-nie with some gonome in the monouchi and above the ura hamachi. Boshi: hakikake. Nakago keitai: ubu, tapering and with a dry, brown patina; yasurime: katte-sagari; nakagojiri: ha-agari kuri-jiri; mekugi-ana: one; mei, katana-mei: Unshu (no) ju Fujiwara Fuyuhiro. [Six small nicks to the monouchi hasaki.]
Koshirae: ishime saya; brown shibuichi kogai with a water dipper on an o-ishime ground; iron Namban type tsuba molded with a dragon and a vajra, unsigned, 18th century, height 7.4 cm.; black-wrapped tsuka with shakudo and gilt Mino style menuki in the form of crickets; shakudo ishime fuchi-kashira applied with stalks of gold bamboo, unsigned, 19th century.
MIDDLE EDO PERIOD (SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY), SIGNED UNSHU (NO) JU FUJIWARA FUYUHIRO, ATTRIBUTED TO TAKAMATSUZENZO FUYUHIRO
Sugata: with shinogi-zukuri, iori-mune and chu-kissaki; nagasa: 2 shaku, 2 sun, 9 bu (69.4 cm.); sori: koshi-zori of 0.8 cm.; fumbari: 1.1 cm. Jihada: itame masame. Hamon: suguba in nioi and ko-nie with some gonome in the monouchi and above the ura hamachi. Boshi: hakikake. Nakago keitai: ubu, tapering and with a dry, brown patina; yasurime: katte-sagari; nakagojiri: ha-agari kuri-jiri; mekugi-ana: one; mei, katana-mei: Unshu (no) ju Fujiwara Fuyuhiro. [Six small nicks to the monouchi hasaki.]
Koshirae: ishime saya; brown shibuichi kogai with a water dipper on an o-ishime ground; iron Namban type tsuba molded with a dragon and a vajra, unsigned, 18th century, height 7.4 cm.; black-wrapped tsuka with shakudo and gilt Mino style menuki in the form of crickets; shakudo ishime fuchi-kashira applied with stalks of gold bamboo, unsigned, 19th century.