Lot Essay
Yoshitake was a student of Horikawa Kunitake.
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A KYO HORIKAWA KATANA
EARLY EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1680), SIGNED IZUMO DAIJO FUJIWARA YOSHITAKE
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and medium point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 2 shaku, 2 sun, 2.5 bu (67.4 cm.).
Forging pattern (jihada): itame masame.
Tempering pattern (hamon): komidare with yo and extensive ko-ashi, all executed in nioi and ko-nie.
Point (boshi): chu-maru with almost no kaeri.
Tang (nakago) shape (keitai): slender, tapering, slightly suriage (approximately 6 cm.) and with a dry, brown patina; file marks (yasurime): sujikai; end (nakagojiri): kiri-jiri; holes (mekugi-ana): two; signature (mei), katana-mei: Izumo (no) Kami Fujiwara Yoshitake.
Uchigatana koshirae comprising: a black ishime saya with scattered sunken designs of stylized waves in black lacquer; an iron Efu tsuba pierced and molded with crashing waves, signed Efu (no) ju Namitoshi; black-wrapped tsuka fitted with a pair of gold menuki reading Namu Myoho Renge-kyo (Lotus Sutra); a pair of shibuichi fuchi-kashira carved with crashing waves, signed Shozui Hogen with kao; kojiri, koiguchi and kurikata matching, but unsigned---length of koshirae 98.5 cm., length of tsuka 24.3 cm., height of tsuba 7.7 cm.
Accompanied by a Kantei sho origami certificate for the tsuba, no. 3379, Heisei 1 (1989), issued by the Nihon Token Hozonkai.
Silk brocade storage bag.
EARLY EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1680), SIGNED IZUMO DAIJO FUJIWARA YOSHITAKE
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi-zukuri), shallow peaked back (iori-mune) and medium point (chu-kissaki); length (nagasa): 2 shaku, 2 sun, 2.5 bu (67.4 cm.).
Forging pattern (jihada): itame masame.
Tempering pattern (hamon): komidare with yo and extensive ko-ashi, all executed in nioi and ko-nie.
Point (boshi): chu-maru with almost no kaeri.
Tang (nakago) shape (keitai): slender, tapering, slightly suriage (approximately 6 cm.) and with a dry, brown patina; file marks (yasurime): sujikai; end (nakagojiri): kiri-jiri; holes (mekugi-ana): two; signature (mei), katana-mei: Izumo (no) Kami Fujiwara Yoshitake.
Uchigatana koshirae comprising: a black ishime saya with scattered sunken designs of stylized waves in black lacquer; an iron Efu tsuba pierced and molded with crashing waves, signed Efu (no) ju Namitoshi; black-wrapped tsuka fitted with a pair of gold menuki reading Namu Myoho Renge-kyo (Lotus Sutra); a pair of shibuichi fuchi-kashira carved with crashing waves, signed Shozui Hogen with kao; kojiri, koiguchi and kurikata matching, but unsigned---length of koshirae 98.5 cm., length of tsuka 24.3 cm., height of tsuba 7.7 cm.
Accompanied by a Kantei sho origami certificate for the tsuba, no. 3379, Heisei 1 (1989), issued by the Nihon Token Hozonkai.
Silk brocade storage bag.