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THE DAITO SIGNED OMI NO KAMI TAKAGI JU SUKENAO SAKU, EDO PERIOD (17TH - 18TH CENTURY); THE WAKIZASHI SIGNED AWATAGUCHI OMI NO KAMI TADATSUNA, EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY); BOTH KOSHIRAE EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)
Details
A MOUNTED DAISHO
THE DAITO SIGNED OMI NO KAMI TAKAGI JU SUKENAO SAKU, EDO PERIOD (17TH - 18TH CENTURY); THE WAKIZASHI SIGNED AWATAGUCHI OMI NO KAMI TADATSUNA, EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY); BOTH KOSHIRAE EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)
Daito:
Sugata [configuration]: shinogi-zukuri, iori mune, shallow tori zori with chu-kissaki
Kitae [forging pattern]: muji-hada
Hamon [tempering pattern]: wide notare midare, almost reaching shinogi in places, some becoming gunome towards kissaki
Boshi [tip]: ko-maru
Nakago [tang]: ubu, two mekugi-ana
Habaki [collar]: gilt copper
Horimono [carving]: atobori, suken [straight sword] and dragon to omote, dragon chasing a sacred pearl to ura
Machi-haba and saki-haba (blade width at two separate points): 3.3 cm. (machi) and 1.9 cm. (saki)
Wakizashi:
Sugata [configuration]: shinogi-zukuri, iori mune, tori zori
Kitae [forging pattern]: muji-hada
Hamon [tempering pattern]: notare midare in konie
Boshi [tip]: o-maru
Nakago [tang]: ha-agari kuri-jiri, single mekugi-ana, suji-chigai yasuri
Habaki [collar]: gilt copper
Horimono [carving]: atobori, dragon with ken [straight sword] to omote, Fudo Myo-o with bonji to ura
Koshirae [mountings]: the black-lacquered scabbards with scrolling clouds, iron tsuba engraved and inlaid with peonies and shishi with gold and shakudo details, signed Iwamoto Ikkan and kao and dated 1860, fuchi signed Tomochika with kao, associated group of shakudo nanako-ji fittings including fuchi-kashira with shishi and peony, shakudo-nanako-ji kozuka with chrysanthemum for wakizashi, menuki of vadjra
Daito: 70.5 cm. (blade), 95.5 cm. long (koshirae)
Wakizashi: 52 cm. (blade), 72 cm. long (koshirae)
Machi-haba and saki-haba (blade width at two separate points): 3.1 cm. (machi) and 2.1 cm. (saki)
THE DAITO SIGNED OMI NO KAMI TAKAGI JU SUKENAO SAKU, EDO PERIOD (17TH - 18TH CENTURY); THE WAKIZASHI SIGNED AWATAGUCHI OMI NO KAMI TADATSUNA, EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY); BOTH KOSHIRAE EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)
Daito:
Sugata [configuration]: shinogi-zukuri, iori mune, shallow tori zori with chu-kissaki
Kitae [forging pattern]: muji-hada
Hamon [tempering pattern]: wide notare midare, almost reaching shinogi in places, some becoming gunome towards kissaki
Boshi [tip]: ko-maru
Nakago [tang]: ubu, two mekugi-ana
Habaki [collar]: gilt copper
Horimono [carving]: atobori, suken [straight sword] and dragon to omote, dragon chasing a sacred pearl to ura
Machi-haba and saki-haba (blade width at two separate points): 3.3 cm. (machi) and 1.9 cm. (saki)
Wakizashi:
Sugata [configuration]: shinogi-zukuri, iori mune, tori zori
Kitae [forging pattern]: muji-hada
Hamon [tempering pattern]: notare midare in konie
Boshi [tip]: o-maru
Nakago [tang]: ha-agari kuri-jiri, single mekugi-ana, suji-chigai yasuri
Habaki [collar]: gilt copper
Horimono [carving]: atobori, dragon with ken [straight sword] to omote, Fudo Myo-o with bonji to ura
Koshirae [mountings]: the black-lacquered scabbards with scrolling clouds, iron tsuba engraved and inlaid with peonies and shishi with gold and shakudo details, signed Iwamoto Ikkan and kao and dated 1860, fuchi signed Tomochika with kao, associated group of shakudo nanako-ji fittings including fuchi-kashira with shishi and peony, shakudo-nanako-ji kozuka with chrysanthemum for wakizashi, menuki of vadjra
Daito: 70.5 cm. (blade), 95.5 cm. long (koshirae)
Wakizashi: 52 cm. (blade), 72 cm. long (koshirae)
Machi-haba and saki-haba (blade width at two separate points): 3.1 cm. (machi) and 2.1 cm. (saki)
Provenance
Harold Brownsword (1885-1961), Professor of Sculpture at Regent Street Polytechnic, and thence by descent
Brought to you by
Anastasia von Seibold