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A SHINSHINTO EDO JUMONJI YARI
EDO PERIOD, DATED KAEI 7 (1854), SIGNED FUJIWARA HISAYUKI ROKUJUKYUSAI KORE O SAKU (KAWAI HISAYUKI)
Configuration (sugata): jumonji yari; length (nagasa): 5 sun, 2 bu (15.0cm.).
Forging pattern (jihada): well-compacted wood grain (ko-itame).
Tempering pattern (hamon): medium suguba.
Point (boshi): medium rounded (chu-maru).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): slender, tapering, of rectangular section and ubu; file marks (yasurime): kiri-yasure; end (nakagojiri): squared (kiri-jiri) and chiselled to a thin edge; holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (mei): Fujiwara Hisayuki rokujukyusai kore o saku (made by Fujiwara Hisayuki at age 69); date (jidai): Kaei 7-nen 8-gatsu (8th month of Kaei 7 [1854]).
Shirasaya.
Accompanied by a futsu kicho token certificate, no. 234710, Showa 47 (1972), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.
EDO PERIOD, DATED KAEI 7 (1854), SIGNED FUJIWARA HISAYUKI ROKUJUKYUSAI KORE O SAKU (KAWAI HISAYUKI)
Configuration (sugata): jumonji yari; length (nagasa): 5 sun, 2 bu (15.0cm.).
Forging pattern (jihada): well-compacted wood grain (ko-itame).
Tempering pattern (hamon): medium suguba.
Point (boshi): medium rounded (chu-maru).
Tang (nakago). Shape (keitai): slender, tapering, of rectangular section and ubu; file marks (yasurime): kiri-yasure; end (nakagojiri): squared (kiri-jiri) and chiselled to a thin edge; holes (mekugi-ana): one; signature (mei): Fujiwara Hisayuki rokujukyusai kore o saku (made by Fujiwara Hisayuki at age 69); date (jidai): Kaei 7-nen 8-gatsu (8th month of Kaei 7 [1854]).
Shirasaya.
Accompanied by a futsu kicho token certificate, no. 234710, Showa 47 (1972), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.
Provenance
Kimball Arms Co., Woburn, Massachusetts