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NANBOKUCHI PERIOD (LATE 14TH CENTURY), SIGNED HASEBE KUNISHIGE
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A Hasebe School Tanto in Mounts
Nanbokuchi period (late 14th century), signed Hasebe Kunishige
Sugata [configuration]: hira-zukuri, iori-mune with slight curvature
Kitae [forging pattern]: ko-itame with some mokume in ji-nie
Hamon [tempering pattern]: suguha near the hamachi and turning to notare on the omote and notare-midare on the ura
Nakago [tang]: slightly shortened with three holes (one filled)
Nagasa [length from tip to beginning of tang]: 11 3/8in. (28.9cm.) Motohaba [width at start of tempered edge]: 1¼in. (3.2cm.)
Habaki [collar]: double, gilt-copper
In shirasaya [wood storage scabbard]
18th-19th-century koshirae [set of mounts]: comprising a black-lacquer ribbed saya mounted with an iron kojiri decorated with two shaped panels containing landscapes with Mount Fuji and fishing boats in the distance in iroe taka-zogan, and an iron kuri-gata with geese and reeds and a willow beneath a moon in shakudo, gold and silver zogan; the tsuka wrapped in baleen and fitted with copper, gold and shakudo menuki formed as a bird inside a mortar and a pestle with a knife, illegibly signed An... and with a shakudo migaki-ji kozuka with the moon rising over a mountain in sukidashi-bori, iroe taka-zogan and hira-zogan, signed Ishiguro Tominsai Masatsune and gold seal; the fuchi-gashira decorated with an oxherd and ox in iroe taka-zogan against a shakudo ishime-ji ground, signed Yasuchika; copper Daruma-gata tanto tsuba designed with a landscape with cliffs and boats returning at dusk in taka-bori and iroe taka-zogan, with a shakudo fukurin, signed Ikkashi Ryuhogen Minju and kao
With certificate no. 3359 issued by the Nihon Token Hozon Kai (Society for the Preservation of Japanese Swords), dated 1989.10.15 (2)
Nanbokuchi period (late 14th century), signed Hasebe Kunishige
Sugata [configuration]: hira-zukuri, iori-mune with slight curvature
Kitae [forging pattern]: ko-itame with some mokume in ji-nie
Hamon [tempering pattern]: suguha near the hamachi and turning to notare on the omote and notare-midare on the ura
Nakago [tang]: slightly shortened with three holes (one filled)
Nagasa [length from tip to beginning of tang]: 11 3/8in. (28.9cm.) Motohaba [width at start of tempered edge]: 1¼in. (3.2cm.)
Habaki [collar]: double, gilt-copper
In shirasaya [wood storage scabbard]
18th-19th-century koshirae [set of mounts]: comprising a black-lacquer ribbed saya mounted with an iron kojiri decorated with two shaped panels containing landscapes with Mount Fuji and fishing boats in the distance in iroe taka-zogan, and an iron kuri-gata with geese and reeds and a willow beneath a moon in shakudo, gold and silver zogan; the tsuka wrapped in baleen and fitted with copper, gold and shakudo menuki formed as a bird inside a mortar and a pestle with a knife, illegibly signed An... and with a shakudo migaki-ji kozuka with the moon rising over a mountain in sukidashi-bori, iroe taka-zogan and hira-zogan, signed Ishiguro Tominsai Masatsune and gold seal; the fuchi-gashira decorated with an oxherd and ox in iroe taka-zogan against a shakudo ishime-ji ground, signed Yasuchika; copper Daruma-gata tanto tsuba designed with a landscape with cliffs and boats returning at dusk in taka-bori and iroe taka-zogan, with a shakudo fukurin, signed Ikkashi Ryuhogen Minju and kao
With certificate no. 3359 issued by the Nihon Token Hozon Kai (Society for the Preservation of Japanese Swords), dated 1989.10.15 (2)