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    IMPORTANT SWORDS FROM THE MUSEUM OF JAPANESE SWORD FITTINGS

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    10 November 2004

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    • A Mino School Katana
    Lot 38

    A Mino School Katana

    UNSIGNED, WITH GOLD INLAY ATTRIBUTION SIGNATURE OF KANEUJI, MUROMACHI PERIOD (15TH CENTURY)

    Price realised

    GBP 7,768

    Estimate

    GBP 5,000 - GBP 6,000

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    A Mino School Katana
    Unsigned, with gold inlay attribution signature of Kaneuji, Muromachi Period (15th Century)
    Sugata [configuration]: honzukuri, iori-mune, slight koshizori, extended chu-kissaki

    Kitae [forging pattern]: ko-itame with jinie

    Hamon [tempering pattern]: gunome of nie, deep ashi, inazuma, sunagashi

    Boshi [tip]: hakikake, ko-maru with kaeri

    Horimono [carvings]: bohi

    Nakago [tang]: two holes

    Habaki [collar]: double, copper-gilt

    In shirasaya [plain wood scabbard]

    Nagasa [length from tip to beginning of tang]: 71.8cm.

    Sori [curvature]: 1.4cm.

    Motohaba [width at start of tempered edge]: 3cm.

    Sakihaba [width before tip]: 2.1cm.

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    Lot Essay

    In old documents a Kaneuji is recorded as having been one ten pupils of Masamune of Soshu. Originally of the Yamato Tegai school, he migrated to Shizu in Mino Province and changed the first character of his name for a different character, which is pronounced the same. In this period he is known as Shizu Saburo. There was at least one contemporary known as Yamato Shizu, although the relationship is not clear. The characteristics of this sword are similar to early Mino work.

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