A Soshu Wakizashi

SIGNED HIROTSUGU, MUROMACHI PERIOD (16TH CENTURY)

Details

A Soshu Wakizashi
Signed Hirotsugu, Muromachi period (16th century)
Sugata [configuration]: unokubi, iori-mune long o-kissaki
Kitae [forging pattern]: itame and mokume, jinie
Hamon [tempering pattern]: midare of ko-nie, ashi, muneyaki
Boshi [tip]: o-midare with tobiyaki
Horimono [carving]: naginatahi of kakudome
Nakago [tang]: suriage, katte-sagari file marks
Habaki [collar]: single, copper inlaid with a pigeon and a paulownia crest
In a black-lacquer ishimeji saya with a plain wood hilt
Nagasa [length from tip to beginning of tang]: 52.2cm.
Sori [curvature]: 0.6cm.
Motohaba [width at start of tempered edge]: 3.1cm.
Sakihaba [width before tip]: 2.9cm.

Exhibited

The Museum of Japanese Sword Fittings, Tokyo, "Kamakura kaji to Edo kinko" (Swordsmiths of Kamakura and metalworkers of Edo), 1998.9

The Museum of Japanese Sword Fittings, Tokyo, "Shinshun tokubetsu ten, busho to aito ten" (Special New Year's exhibition, warriors and their favorite swords), 2001.1

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
The Museum of Japanese Sword Fittings, ed., Kamakura kaji to Edo kinko (Swordsmiths of Kamakura and metalworkers of Edo), exh. cat. (Tokyo: Museum of Japanese Sword Fittings, 1998), no. 13, p. 13.

_________, Shinshun tokubetsu ten, busho to aito ten (Special New Year's exhibition, warriors and their favorite swords), exh. cat. (Tokyo: Museum of Japanese Sword Fittings, 2001), no. 7, p. 12.

The sword is probably by one of the smiths who worked in the late Soshu style at Odawara during the late Muromachi period.

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