SIGNED KANEMOTO, MUROMACHI PERIOD (16TH CENTURY)

细节

A Mino Katana
Signed Kanemoto, Muromachi Period (16th Century)
Sugata [configuration]: honzukuri, iori-mune, broad and even curved with a chu kissaki
Kitae [forging pattern]: clear bright itame with mokume
Hamon [tempering pattern]: gunome with togariba in sambontsugi form of nioi with ko-nie, some kinsuji and yubashiri
Boshi [tip]: midare-komi with Jizo-type return and a degree of hakikake
Nakago [tang]: machi-okuri with ubu kurigata tip, two holes, and taka-no-ha file marks
Habaki [collar]: double, gold-clad
Nagasa [length from tip to beginning of tang]: 71.3cm.

注意事项

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍品专文

Accompanied by a Tokubetsu Hozon Token [Sword Worthy of Preserving] certificate no.144026, issued by the Nihon Bijutssu Token Hozon Kyokai [Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Art Sword] on 5 February 1999.

The signature of this blade is that of the second generation of the smiths styled Kanemoto, who worked in Seki in Mino Province through the late Muromachi Period and through to the Edo period. Magoroku Kanemoto was the originator of the sambonsugi [triple cryptomeria] hamon, contrived into a succession of pointed gunome with every third undulation higher than the two surrounding in simulation of the distant profile of treetops in a forest.
A sword by Magoroku was sold in these Rooms in September 2004.