細節
A Satsuma Katana
Signed Hoki (no) kami Taira Ason Masayoshi, zo ken jakkan kami ari kore furi and dated Kansei 3rd I 2-gatsu [1791]
Sugata [configuration]: shinogi-zukuri [longituginal ridge], o-kissaki [large point], iori-mune [shallow peaked back], koshi-zori [curvature near tang]
Kitae [forging pattern]: a combination of running itame [wood grain] and o-mokume [large burl wood grain], ji-nie [hard metal granules] and chikei [short lines of nie]
Hamon [tempering pattern]: a combination of notare [undulating line] and gunome [small pointed curves], togari-ba with nie, yubashiri, sunagashi [thick lines of nie], kinsuji [bright curved threadlike areas]
Boshi [tip]: hakikake [brushed tip]
Horimono [carvings]: so style kurikara [dragon and sword] on the omote, bonji [Sansckrit characters] and a flag on the ura
Nakago [tang]: ubu [unaltered] with katte agari yasurime [diagonal file marks sloping towards the edge of the tang], one mekugi-ana [hole for retaining pegs], kengyo [pointed heel]
Fitted with two-tier gilt habaki [collar]
Shirasaya [plain wood scabbard]
Nagasa [length from tip to beginning of tang]: 27 15/16in. (71.1cm.)
Sori [curvature]: 7/8in. (2.1cm)
Motohaba [width at start of tempered edge]: 1¼in. (3.2cm)
Sakihaba [width before tip]: 1in. (2.5cm)
出版
Fujishiro Yoshio, Meito Zukan (Tokyo, 1937), Fujishiro Yoshio, Shin-shinto shu: Hamon to Meiji (Tokyo, 1941), p.131
Fukunaga Suiken, Zuroku Satsuma no Katana to Tsuba (Tokyo, 1965), p.199
Kataoka Ginsaku, Nihonto zuikan: Shinto hen (Tokyo, 1984), p.1010
Fujishiro Yoshio and Fujishiro Matsuo, Nihon toko jiten: Shinto hen (Tokyo, 1992), p.316
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