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A KOTO KO-WAKIZASHI
MUROMACHI PERIOD (PROBABLY 15TH CENTURY), ATTRIBUTED TO KAI MIHARA
Sugata: katashobu-zukuri with iori-mune; nagasa: 1 shaku, 1 sun, 4.5 bu (34.7 cm.) ; sori: of 0.5 cm.; horimono: kaki-nagashi futatsujibi. Jihada: well-configured itame masame. Hamon: ito suguba in nioi and ko-nie. Boshi: ko-maru hakikake. Nakago keitai: slightly uplifted, probably ubu and nakagosakikiri (shaved underneath) and with a moist, rich, brown patina; yasurime: sujikai; nakagojiri: kiri-jiri; mekugi-ana: two (one being a hyotan-ana and one a shinobi-ana); mei, mumei.
Tanto-goshirae in 'Chinese taste': fuemaki roiro saya [restored]; iron nadekakugata tsuba with sukinokoshi mimi and decorated in gold nunome with kiri and clouds, unsigned, 19th century, height 6.3 cm.; pewter kozuka molded with an archiac dragon and clouds, unsigned; remaining mounts (koiguchi, kurikata, sayadogane, menuki, fuchi-kashira) in o-ishime sentoku with scattered blue enamel in Chinese style motifs, unsigned.
Two storage bags.
Accompanied by a Futsu kicho ninteisho, no. 5505084, dated Showa 55 (1980), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.
MUROMACHI PERIOD (PROBABLY 15TH CENTURY), ATTRIBUTED TO KAI MIHARA
Sugata: katashobu-zukuri with iori-mune; nagasa: 1 shaku, 1 sun, 4.5 bu (34.7 cm.) ; sori: of 0.5 cm.; horimono: kaki-nagashi futatsujibi. Jihada: well-configured itame masame. Hamon: ito suguba in nioi and ko-nie. Boshi: ko-maru hakikake. Nakago keitai: slightly uplifted, probably ubu and nakagosakikiri (shaved underneath) and with a moist, rich, brown patina; yasurime: sujikai; nakagojiri: kiri-jiri; mekugi-ana: two (one being a hyotan-ana and one a shinobi-ana); mei, mumei.
Tanto-goshirae in 'Chinese taste': fuemaki roiro saya [restored]; iron nadekakugata tsuba with sukinokoshi mimi and decorated in gold nunome with kiri and clouds, unsigned, 19th century, height 6.3 cm.; pewter kozuka molded with an archiac dragon and clouds, unsigned; remaining mounts (koiguchi, kurikata, sayadogane, menuki, fuchi-kashira) in o-ishime sentoku with scattered blue enamel in Chinese style motifs, unsigned.
Two storage bags.
Accompanied by a Futsu kicho ninteisho, no. 5505084, dated Showa 55 (1980), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.