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AN O-SURIAGE KATANA
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AN O-SURIAGE KATANA

UNSIGNED ATTRIBUTED TO MIIKE SCHOOL, NANBOKUCHO PERIOD (14TH CENTURY)

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AN O-SURIAGE KATANA
UNSIGNED ATTRIBUTED TO MIIKE SCHOOL, NANBOKUCHO PERIOD (14TH CENTURY)
Sugata [configuration]: broad honzukuri, iori-mune, even curve, extended chu-gissaki
Kitae [forging pattern]: itame with mokume, nagare in places, much jinie and chikei
Hamon [tempering pattern]: suguha with variations, some gunome and ashi of ko-nie
Boshi [tip]: notare-komi with tsukiage
Nakago [tang]: osuriage, file marks indistinct, two mekugi-ana, shallow ha-agari kurijiri
Nagasa [length of blade]: 71.2cm.
Horimono [carving]: bohi gooves kakinagasu
Koshirae [mounting]: In shirasaya with attribution to the Sue Miike School
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The Miike school of Chikugo province, part of present-day Fukuoka prefecture, is believed to have been established by Tenta Mitsuyo in the late Heian period, and to have continued to the Muromachi period. They are thought also to have spread to Aki and Hizen, but the extent of the school is uncertain owing to the lack of signed work.

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