SIGNED ECHIGO ITOIGAWA (NO) JU HIROSHIGE SAKU, AND DATED KAEI ROKUNEN USHI HACHIGATSU HI [A DAY IN THE EIGHTH MONTH 1853]
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SIGNED ECHIGO ITOIGAWA (NO) JU HIROSHIGE SAKU, AND DATED KAEI ROKUNEN USHI HACHIGATSU HI [A DAY IN THE EIGHTH MONTH 1853]
Sugata [configuration]: hirazukuri, iori-mune, slight curve, rather shallow kissaki
Kitae [forging pattern]: tight itame hada
Hamon [tempering pattern]: gunome-ba
Boshi [tip]: ko-maru
Nakago [tang]: ubu, one mekugi-ana, gyaku-sujikai and kesho file marks, iriyamagata jiri
Koshirae [mounting]: aikuchi mounting, the saya lacquered black with sparse nashiji and water dragons in black takamaki-e, black-lacquered wood kogai signed Kankantei in gold lacquer, kurikata, kojiri, fuchigashira lacquered black with paulownia mon in gold takamaki-e, menuki gilt copper roundels engraved with phoenixes
SIGNED ECHIGO ITOIGAWA (NO) JU HIROSHIGE SAKU, AND DATED KAEI ROKUNEN USHI HACHIGATSU HI [A DAY IN THE EIGHTH MONTH 1853]
Sugata [configuration]: hirazukuri, iori-mune, slight curve, rather shallow kissaki
Kitae [forging pattern]: tight itame hada
Hamon [tempering pattern]: gunome-ba
Boshi [tip]: ko-maru
Nakago [tang]: ubu, one mekugi-ana, gyaku-sujikai and kesho file marks, iriyamagata jiri
Koshirae [mounting]: aikuchi mounting, the saya lacquered black with sparse nashiji and water dragons in black takamaki-e, black-lacquered wood kogai signed Kankantei in gold lacquer, kurikata, kojiri, fuchigashira lacquered black with paulownia mon in gold takamaki-e, menuki gilt copper roundels engraved with phoenixes
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