A Yamashiro Ken Blade in Mounts
A Yamashiro Ken Blade in Mounts

EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY), SIGNED OMI (NO) KAMI (HISAMICHI)

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A Yamashiro Ken Blade in Mounts
Edo period (17th century), signed Omi (no) kami (Hisamichi)
Sugata [configuration]: ken-zukuri
Kitae [forging pattern]: fine ko-itame of jinie
Hamon [tempering pattern]: suguha of nie with utsuri and sunagashi
Nakago [tang]: suriage two holes
Habaki [collar]: silvered copper
Nagasa [length from tip to beginning of tang]: 7 3/8in. (8.6cm.)
In shirasaya [wood storage scabbard]

19th-century koshirae [set of mounts]: ribbed wood saya with the surface finished to enhance the natural grain of the wood and decorated with two applied gold birds flying above rocks and a stream rendered in gold and silver hiramaki-e and takamaki-e, the kojiri, koiguchi, kurigata and fuchi-gashira all silver and carved with crashing waves, the silver kozuka also carved with waves, tsuka wrapped in baleen and fitted with gold coiling dragon menuki (2)