A BIZEN KOZORI TACHI

Lot 102
20.09.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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ID 813586
Lot 102 | A BIZEN KOZORI TACHI
Estimate value
$ 15 000 – 25 000
A BIZEN KOZORI TACHI

EARLY MUROMACHI PERIOD (14TH CENTURY), SIGNED BISHU OSAFUNE SHIGE (YOSHI-ILLEGBLE) DATED MEITOKU SANNEN JUGATSUHI (OCTOBER 1392)

Configuration [sugata]: hon-zukuri with iori-mune; deep curvature

Forging pattern [jihada]: dense mokume with bo-utsuri

Tempering pattern [hamon]: gunome-midare with some ashi

Point [boshi]: small and rounded (ko-maru) with slight notare

Tang [nakago]: unshortened (ubu); file marks (yasurime): sloping (sujikai); end (nakagojiri): rounded (kurijiri); holes (mekugi-ana): two

Length from tip to beginning of tang [nagasa]: 61cm.; curvature 2.1cm.; width at start of tempered edge 2.9cm.; width before tip 2cm.

Collar [habaki]: single gilt-copper

In shirasaya (wood storage scabbard)

Mounting [koshirae]: Gold lacquered Itomaki tachi koshirae (sword mounting with cord-wrapped scabbard), the saya decorated with chrysanthemum and leaves crests in gold foil on a nashiji ground, metal fittings also bearing with chrysanthemum and leaves crests in gilt on shakudo nanako-ji, 88.5cm





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Kaisendo Museum, Yamagata, Japan
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