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For a comparable signature and placement, see Compton Collection (Part II), 22 October, 1992, lot 279.
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AN OSAKA TAMBA CHIISA-KATANA
EARLY EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1690), SIGNED TAMBA (NO) KAMI YOSHIMICHI [YOSHIMICHI III]
Sugata: with shinogi-zukuri, iori-mune and chu-kissaki; nagasa: 1 shaku, 8 sun, 6 bu (56.5 cm.); sori: koshi-zori of 1.5 cm.; fumbari: 0.9 cm. Jihada: extremely tight itame, almost muji. Hamon: extremely wide and shallow toran in nioi and nie. Boshi: chu-maru. Nakago keitai: ubu, tapering and with a dry, brown patina; yasurime: osujikai; nakagojiri: kengyo; mekugi-ana: one; mei, katana-mei: Tamba (no) Kami Yoshimichi. [Hamachi chipped; scattered old rust spots.] Handachi saya.
Accompanied by a Tokubetsu kicho ninteisho, no. 5505002, dated Showa 55 (1980), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.
EARLY EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1690), SIGNED TAMBA (NO) KAMI YOSHIMICHI [YOSHIMICHI III]
Sugata: with shinogi-zukuri, iori-mune and chu-kissaki; nagasa: 1 shaku, 8 sun, 6 bu (56.5 cm.); sori: koshi-zori of 1.5 cm.; fumbari: 0.9 cm. Jihada: extremely tight itame, almost muji. Hamon: extremely wide and shallow toran in nioi and nie. Boshi: chu-maru. Nakago keitai: ubu, tapering and with a dry, brown patina; yasurime: osujikai; nakagojiri: kengyo; mekugi-ana: one; mei, katana-mei: Tamba (no) Kami Yoshimichi. [Hamachi chipped; scattered old rust spots.] Handachi saya.
Accompanied by a Tokubetsu kicho ninteisho, no. 5505002, dated Showa 55 (1980), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.