拍品專文
This blade was polished by Mr. Erickson and his kao is pencilled on the ura below the machi.
細節
AN UMETADA MYOJU STYLE TANTO
EARLY EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY), INSCRIBED YAMASHIRO (NO) KUNI NISHIJIN (NO) JU UMETADA MYOJU
Sugata: of hira-zukuri with iori-mune nagasa: 6 sun, 6 bu (20.0 cm.); sori: slight uchizori); horimono: ura: goma-bashi; omote: flowering plum; Jihada: well-compacted itame. Hamon: medium suguba in nioi and ko-nie with some traces of sunagashi. Boshi: chu-maru.Nakago keitai: tapering, ubu and with a dry, brown patina; yasurime: kiri-yasuri; nakagojiri: kengyo; mekugi-ana: one; mei: gakumei, Yamashiro (no) Kuni Nishijin (no) ju Umetada Myoju.
Aikuchi koshirae: black lacquer fuemaki saya [chips and dents]; black leather-wrapped tsuka with roiro fuchi-kashira and quail menuki of shakudo and gold; Goto style shakudo nanako kozuka applied in shakudo, gold and silver with a woodcutter asleep beside a waterfall, unsigned. Three storage bags.
EARLY EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY), INSCRIBED YAMASHIRO (NO) KUNI NISHIJIN (NO) JU UMETADA MYOJU
Sugata: of hira-zukuri with iori-mune nagasa: 6 sun, 6 bu (20.0 cm.); sori: slight uchizori); horimono: ura: goma-bashi; omote: flowering plum; Jihada: well-compacted itame. Hamon: medium suguba in nioi and ko-nie with some traces of sunagashi. Boshi: chu-maru.Nakago keitai: tapering, ubu and with a dry, brown patina; yasurime: kiri-yasuri; nakagojiri: kengyo; mekugi-ana: one; mei: gakumei, Yamashiro (no) Kuni Nishijin (no) ju Umetada Myoju.
Aikuchi koshirae: black lacquer fuemaki saya [chips and dents]; black leather-wrapped tsuka with roiro fuchi-kashira and quail menuki of shakudo and gold; Goto style shakudo nanako kozuka applied in shakudo, gold and silver with a woodcutter asleep beside a waterfall, unsigned. Three storage bags.