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AN IMPORTANT SHINSHINTO KATANA BLADE, late Edo period, dated Ansei yonen (1857) hinotomi chushun, signed Sakuyo Bakkashi Hosokawa Masayoshi zo, with punched seal
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge (shinogi-
zukuri), peaked back (iorimune) and medium point (chugissaki), length (nagasa) 64.1 cm., curvature (sori) torii-zori of 2.3 cm.
Forging pattern (jihada): ko-itame
Quenching pattern (hamon) irregular clove-like patterns (choji-midare) with nioi and some ko-nie
Point (boshi): irregular (midare komi)
Tang (nakago): shape (keitai) unshortened (ubu); file marks (yasurime) kesho-yasuri; tip (nakagojiri) shallow rounded (kurijiri); holes (mekugiana); one; signature (katanamei): Sakuyo Bakkashi Hosokawa Masayoshi zo, and seal, dated on ura Ansei yonen (1857), mid spring
In shirasaya
Accompanied by a Tokubetsu Hozon Token Kanteisho No. 122747 dated Heisei sannen (1990)
Configuration (sugata): with longitudinal ridge (shinogi-
zukuri), peaked back (iorimune) and medium point (chugissaki), length (nagasa) 64.1 cm., curvature (sori) torii-zori of 2.3 cm.
Forging pattern (jihada): ko-itame
Quenching pattern (hamon) irregular clove-like patterns (choji-midare) with nioi and some ko-nie
Point (boshi): irregular (midare komi)
Tang (nakago): shape (keitai) unshortened (ubu); file marks (yasurime) kesho-yasuri; tip (nakagojiri) shallow rounded (kurijiri); holes (mekugiana); one; signature (katanamei): Sakuyo Bakkashi Hosokawa Masayoshi zo, and seal, dated on ura Ansei yonen (1857), mid spring
In shirasaya
Accompanied by a Tokubetsu Hozon Token Kanteisho No. 122747 dated Heisei sannen (1990)