A Mino School Tanto

SIGNED KANETOMO, NANBOKUCHO-MUROMACHI PERIOD (14TH-15TH CENTURY)

細節

A Mino School Tanto
Signed Kanetomo, Nanbokucho-Muromachi period (14th-15th century)
Honzukuri, iori-mune; itame with masame forging pattern with gunome of nioi, sunagashi tempered edge with ko-maru midare tip on the ura and jizo boshi on the omote; bohi carved on both sides; tang ubu with two holes and higaki file marks; double, gilt-copper habaki
27cm.; no curvature; width at start of tempered edge 2.6cm.

拍品專文

The first generation Kanetomo, or Yuemon no Jo, is believed to have gone from Soshu to Naoe in Mino Province in the fourteenth century together with Kaneuji. There followed several successive generations of smiths in the fifteenth century signing both Kaneuji and Kanetomo. This tanto appears to be by one of the earliest of the line.