A Bizen Ichimonji School Tachi

SIGNED YOSHIFUSA, MIDDLE KAMAKURA PERIOD (13TH CENTURY)

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A Bizen Ichimonji School Tachi
Signed Yoshifusa, middle Kamakura period (13th century)
Sugata [configuration]: honzukuri, iori-mune, koshizori, chu-kissaki
Kitae [forging pattern]: itame with jinie
Hamon [tempering pattern]: gunome with ashi of ko-nie turning into suguha towards monouchi, midare utsuri
Boshi [tip]: ko-maru with hakikake in omote
Horimono [carvings]: bohi both sides with marudome
Nakago [tang]: ubu, three holes (one plugged)
Habaki [collar]: double
Nagasa [length from tip to beginning of tang]: 72.4 cm.
Sori [curvature]: 1.8 cm.
Motohaba [width at start of tempered edge]: 2.9 cm.
Sakihaba [width before tip]: 1.7 cm.

拍品專文

PUBLISHED:
Homma Junji, ed., Toei tekiroku: Kozu haku oshigata, (Tokyo: Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai and Token Shunju Shinbunsha, 1984), p. 680 (Collection of Homma Mitsumasa)

This is a classic work by Yoshifusa of the Ichimonji school. He was the third generation in descent from Nobufusa, who was one of the "Goban Kaji," or "attendant smiths" of the retired Emperor Gotoba in the early thirteenth century. Yoshifusa is traditionally known as one of the "Seven Great Ichimonji Smiths."