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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)
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)