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A SETTSU TADATSUNA NAGINATA
EARLY EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1680), SIGNED AWATAGUCHI SETTSU (NO) KAMI MINAMOTO TADAYUKI
Sugata: kataunokubi-zukuri without naginata-hi; iori-mune and ko-kissaki; nagasa: 3 shaku, 1 sun, 1 bu (94.3 cm.); sori: koshi-zori of 2.4 cm.; fumbari: 1.2 cm. Jihada, Hamon, Boshi: all indistinct due to a rubbed surface. Nakago keitai: tapering, ubu and with a soft, brown patina; yasurime: higaki; Jihada: ha-agari kuri-jiri; mekugi-ana: one (plus one shinobi-ana); mei, katana-mei: Awataguchi Settsu (no) Kami Minamoto Tadayuki.
Red lacquer naginata shaft fitted with an iron double crossguard.
Shirasaya; storage bag.
Accompanied by a Tokubetsu kicho ninteisho, no. 5504909, dated Showa 55 (1980), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.
EARLY EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1680), SIGNED AWATAGUCHI SETTSU (NO) KAMI MINAMOTO TADAYUKI
Sugata: kataunokubi-zukuri without naginata-hi; iori-mune and ko-kissaki; nagasa: 3 shaku, 1 sun, 1 bu (94.3 cm.); sori: koshi-zori of 2.4 cm.; fumbari: 1.2 cm. Jihada, Hamon, Boshi: all indistinct due to a rubbed surface. Nakago keitai: tapering, ubu and with a soft, brown patina; yasurime: higaki; Jihada: ha-agari kuri-jiri; mekugi-ana: one (plus one shinobi-ana); mei, katana-mei: Awataguchi Settsu (no) Kami Minamoto Tadayuki.
Red lacquer naginata shaft fitted with an iron double crossguard.
Shirasaya; storage bag.
Accompanied by a Tokubetsu kicho ninteisho, no. 5504909, dated Showa 55 (1980), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.