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MUROMACHI PERIOD (16TH CENTURY)
Details
An Uda School Wakizashi in Mounts
Muromachi period (16th century)
Sugata [configuration]: honzukuri, iori-mune, toriizori, chu-kissaki
Kitae [forging pattern]: masame of ji-nie
Hamon [tempering pattern]: gunome in suguha style
Horimono [carving]: kakinagashi grooves on both sides
Boshi [tip]:ko-midare
Nakago [tang]: kurijiri with two holes
Habaki [collar]: single, gilt-copper
Nagasa [length from tip to beginning of tang]: 50.1cm.
Koshirae [set of mounts]: Diagonal ribbed black-lacquer saya with silver ishime-ji kojiri, kurikata, koikuchi and fuchi-kashira carved with foliate scroll in kebori, the fuchi signed Rakurakusai Ishiguro Kazutoshi and with kao, gilt-metal menuki cast as Chinese lions, silver mokko plate tsuba with katakiri chrysanthemums, Edo period (18th-19th) century
The blade with a Hozon Token (Sword Worthy of Preserving) certificate issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai (Society for the Preservation of the Japan Art Sword) dated 1988.6.30
The koshirae with a Tokubetsu Hozon Tosogu (Mounting Especially Worthy of Preserving) certificate issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai (Society for the Preservation of the Japan Art Sword) dated 1988.6.27
Muromachi period (16th century)
Sugata [configuration]: honzukuri, iori-mune, toriizori, chu-kissaki
Kitae [forging pattern]: masame of ji-nie
Hamon [tempering pattern]: gunome in suguha style
Horimono [carving]: kakinagashi grooves on both sides
Boshi [tip]:ko-midare
Nakago [tang]: kurijiri with two holes
Habaki [collar]: single, gilt-copper
Nagasa [length from tip to beginning of tang]: 50.1cm.
Koshirae [set of mounts]: Diagonal ribbed black-lacquer saya with silver ishime-ji kojiri, kurikata, koikuchi and fuchi-kashira carved with foliate scroll in kebori, the fuchi signed Rakurakusai Ishiguro Kazutoshi and with kao, gilt-metal menuki cast as Chinese lions, silver mokko plate tsuba with katakiri chrysanthemums, Edo period (18th-19th) century
The blade with a Hozon Token (Sword Worthy of Preserving) certificate issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai (Society for the Preservation of the Japan Art Sword) dated 1988.6.30
The koshirae with a Tokubetsu Hozon Tosogu (Mounting Especially Worthy of Preserving) certificate issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai (Society for the Preservation of the Japan Art Sword) dated 1988.6.27