AN ECHIZEN SHIMOSAKA WAKIZASHI

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AN ECHIZEN SHIMOSAKA WAKIZASHI
EARLY EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1680), SIGNED (AOI-MON) YASUTSUGU (NI) OITE ECHIZEN KORE(O) SAKU [SHIROZAEMON YASUTSUGU III]

Sugata: with shinogi-zukuri, iori-mune; and chu-kissaki; nagasa: 1 shaku, 3 sun, 5 bu (40.9 cm.); sori: 0.9 cm.; fumbari: 0.9 cm. Jihada: well-configured itame. Hamon: gonome komidare in nioi and excellent nie and ko-nie with extensive sunagashi and some kinsuji. Boshi: chu-maru. Nakago keitai: tapering, ubu and with a dry, brown patina; yasurime: sujiukai; nakagojiri: kengyo; mekugi-ana: one; mei, katana-mei: (Aoi-mon) Yasutsugu (ni) oite Echizen kore(o) saku.

Koshirae: saya lacquered to resemble wood [some chips and splits; uragawara missing]; Ishiguro style shibuichi fukurogata kojiri and matching fuchi-kashira lightly carved, molded and applied in gold and shakudo with fishermen, streams and landscapes, the fuchi signed Masatsune saku (probably Masatsune III), first half 19th century; shakudo nanako kurikata (not matching) applied in silver, shakudo and gold with cock, hen and chicks; copper snail menuki; oval iron tsuba molded with a stone and basketwork jetty, signature unread, diameter 5.5 cm. Storage bag.

Accompanied by a kanteisho, no. 447, dated Showa 53 (1978), issued by Suiken Fukunaga; a kanteisho, no. 7358, dated Showa 59 (1984), issued by the Nippon Token Hozon Kai; a ninteisho, no. 5504920, dated Showa 55 (1980), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.

拍品專文

Shirozaemon Yasutsugu III, also known as Echizen Yasutsugu III, was the younger brother of Yasutsugu II, as distinguished from Ichinojo Yasutsugu, the son of Yasutsugu II. In about 1645, after several decades in which Yasutsugu I and II worked alternate years in Edo and Echizen, the Yasutsugu school split into the Edo Yasutsugu and Echizen Yasutsugu lines, both of which continued working until about 1870.