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 EDO NODA KATANA AFTER HANKEI
EARLY EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY), KINZOGANMEI, HANKEI
Sugata: with shinogi-zukuri, iori-mune and chu-kissaki; nagasa: 2 shaku, 3 sun (69.7 cm.); sori: koshi-zori of 1.5 cm.; horimono: kaki-nagashi futatsujibi on both sides. Jihada: koitame. Hamon: an exhuberant combination of midare, sudareba, sunagashi, sanjuba, yahazuba and tobiyaki in nioi and bright nie. Boshi: hakikake. Nakago keitai: suriage, tapering and with a moist, brown patina; yasurime: katte-sagari; nakagojiri: kiri-jiri; mekugi-ana: three; mei, katana-mei: kinzoganmei, Hankei.
Koshirae: roiro saya; Edo Kinko iron tsuba applied on both sides with scattered gold waterweeds and on the front with a copper design of a bridge for the strings of a koto, the reverse with the Genjimon for chapters 11 and 44 (Hanachirusato and Takegawa), mid-19th century, unsigned, height 8.1 cm; black-wrapped tsuka fitted with shakudo and gilt menuki of deer and a shakudo nanako fuchi-kashira set decorated with gold kiku and stylized foliage, unsigned, early 19th century. Storage bag.
Accompanied by an origame by Hakusui Inami.
EARLY EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY), KINZOGANMEI, HANKEI
Sugata: with shinogi-zukuri, iori-mune and chu-kissaki; nagasa: 2 shaku, 3 sun (69.7 cm.); sori: koshi-zori of 1.5 cm.; horimono: kaki-nagashi futatsujibi on both sides. Jihada: koitame. Hamon: an exhuberant combination of midare, sudareba, sunagashi, sanjuba, yahazuba and tobiyaki in nioi and bright nie. Boshi: hakikake. Nakago keitai: suriage, tapering and with a moist, brown patina; yasurime: katte-sagari; nakagojiri: kiri-jiri; mekugi-ana: three; mei, katana-mei: kinzoganmei, Hankei.
Koshirae: roiro saya; Edo Kinko iron tsuba applied on both sides with scattered gold waterweeds and on the front with a copper design of a bridge for the strings of a koto, the reverse with the Genjimon for chapters 11 and 44 (Hanachirusato and Takegawa), mid-19th century, unsigned, height 8.1 cm; black-wrapped tsuka fitted with shakudo and gilt menuki of deer and a shakudo nanako fuchi-kashira set decorated with gold kiku and stylized foliage, unsigned, early 19th century. Storage bag.
Accompanied by an origame by Hakusui Inami.