SIGNED SUKEHISA, KAMAKURA PERIOD (13TH CENTURY)

Details

A Bizen Ichimonji School Tachi
Signed Sukehisa, Kamakura Period (13th Century)
Sugata [configuration]: honzukuri, iori-mune, koshizori, chu-kissaki

Kitae [forging pattern]: itame with jinie, midare-utsuri

Hamon [tempering pattern]: ko-choji of ko-nie

Boshi [tip]: narrow ko-maru

Nakago [tang]: ubu, machi-okuri, three holes

Habaki [collar]: double, gold

In shirasaya [plain wood scabbard]

Nagasa [length from tip to beginning of tang]: 68.6cm.

Sori [curvature]: 1.8cm.

Motohaba [width at start of tempered edge]: 2.8cm.

Sakihaba [width before tip]: 1.8cm.

Literature

The Museum of Japanese Sword Fittings, Kaikan San-shunen kinen Tokubetsu ten, Meimon Kinko Goto-ke no Ishizue (Tokyo, 1998), cat.no.15, p.8

Exhibited

Kaikan San-shunen kinen Tokubetsu ten, Meimon Kinko Goto-ke no Ishizue [The 3rd Anniversary Exbition of Major Work of the Goto Family of Metalworkers], The Museum of Japanese Sword Fittings, Tokyo, from September 1998

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Lot Essay

This sword is a typical and fine example of the work of the Ichimonji School. The signature is slightly worn due to the re-shaping of the tang during the machi-okuri process. Although the signature differs slightly from the well-known example in Nipponto Jiten by Fujishiro ¹, which is also that illustrated in Yumei Koto Taikan by Iimura² as a possession of the house of Prince Takamatsu, the blade characteristics are very similar.

¹ Fujishiro Matsuo and Fujishiro Yoshio, Nipponto Jiten (Tokyo, 1975), p. 595
² Iimura Kasho, Yumei Koto Taikan (Tokyo, 1982), p. 288

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