UNSIGNED, ATTRIBUTED TO SOSHU YUKIMITSU, LATE KAMAKURA PERIOD (14TH CENTURY)

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A Soshu School Tanto
Unsigned, attributed to Soshu Yukimitsu, Late Kamakura Period (14th Century)
Sugata [configuration]: honzukuri, mitsu-mune

Kitae [forging pattern]: itame with jinie

Hamon [tempering pattern]: hoso-suguha of konie with bo-utsuri

Boshi [tip]: ko-maru

Nakago [tang]: ubu, two holes

In shirasaya [plain wood scabbard]: with inscription Soshu Yukimitsu

Koshirae [set of mounts] comprising: black lacquer aikuchi koshirae with lacquered fuchi-kashira, gold menuki of Hotei, silver kozuka with Hotei and his sack in kebori and kao on reverse, both attributed to Goto Teijo, 38cm.

Nagasa [length from tip to beginning of tang]: 25cm.

Sori [curvature]: 0.1cm.

Motohaba [width at start of tempered edge]: 2.4cm.

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Lot Essay

Although unsigned, the blade shape and characteristics are clearly of the earliest Soshu work and the attribution of the sayagaki to Yukimitsu, whose style has the greatest variation of the early smiths, is reasonable. Fittingly, this fine old blade was given a mounting with gold menuki and silver kozuka attributed to Goto Teijo, probably during the Meiji Period. This is inscribed also on the shirasaya.

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