SIGNED OMI NO KAMI TAKAGI JUNIN SUKENAO, KANBUN 9-NEN 8-GATSU HI (1669), EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY)

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An Osaka Katana
Signed Omi no kami Takagi junin Sukenao, Kanbun 9-nen 8-gatsu hi (1669), Edo Period (17th Century)
Sugata [configuration]: honzukuri, iori-mune, toriizori, chu-kissaki

Kitae [forging pattern]: very close itame, masame on shinogi-ji

Hamon [tempering pattern]: o-gunome midare of nie, sunagashi, jifu

Boshi [tip]: kaen on omote, ichimai on ura, long muneyaki

Nakago [tang]: ubu, one hole, o-sujikai, iriyamagata

Habaki [collar]: single, silvered copper

In shirasaya [plain wood scabbard]

Nagasa [length from tip to beginning of tang]: 70.2cm.

Sori [curvature]: 1cm.

Motohaba [width at start of tempered edge]: 3cm.

Sakihaba [width before tip]: 1.7cm.

Literature

The Museum of Japanese Sword Fittings, Tokubetsu ten, Edo Jidai no Katana to Tosogu [Special Exhibition of Swords and Fittings of the Edo Period] (Tokyo, 1999), cat.no.5, p.5

Exhibited

Tokubetsu ten, Edo Jidai no Katana to Tosogu [Special Exhibition, Swords and Sword-fittings in Edo Period], The Museum of Japanese Sword Fittings, Tokyo, from April 1999

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Lot Essay

Sukenao married the sister of Tsuta Sukehiro of Osaka in 1682, and died in 1693 aged just fifty five. He followed closely the style of Sukehiro, particularly with versions of the toramba [billowing] hamon.

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