A Shizu Style Wakizashi

UNSIGNED, POSSIBLY ATTRIBUTED TO NAOE SHIZU, NANBOKUCHO-MUROMACHI PERIOD (14TH-15TH CENTURY)

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A Shizu Style Wakizashi
Unsigned, possibly attributed to Naoe Shizu, Nanbokucho-Muromachi period (14th-15th century)
Naginata naoshi, iori-mune carved with naginatahi; ko-itame, jinie, togariba, muneyaki; tempered edge narrow gunome of nie, ashi, uchinoke, shirake utsuri; boshi with deep kaeri; tang with one hole and kiri file marks; double, gilt habaki
47.8cm. from tip to beginning of tang; 1.3cm. curvature; 3.1cm. wide at the start of the tempered edge

拍品專文

The registration document attributes the blade to the Naoe Shizu group. The school was established by pupils of Saburo Kaneuji, who had moved from Soshu to Naoe village in Mino in the fourteenth century. The elegant shape and richness of activity of nie in both ji and ha suggest an early date. Later fifteenth-century pieces tend to exhibit less nie and hamon of gunome with togariba.