A BIZEN OSAFUNE TANTO

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20.09.2022 10:00UTC -04:00
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ID 813455
Lot 101 | A BIZEN OSAFUNE TANTO
A BIZEN OSAFUNE TANTO

LATE KAMAKURA PERIOD (14TH CENTURY), SIGNED BISHU OSAFUNE KAGEMITSU, DATED GENKO YONEN KINOENE SANGATSU JUROKUHI (16 MARCH 1324)

Configuration [sugata]: hira-zukuri with iori-mune; fukura-kareru, no curvature

Forging pattern [jihada]: mokume with bo-utsuri

Tempering pattern [hamon]: hoso-suguba

Point [boshi]: rounded (ko-maru).

Tang [nakago]: shape (keitai): slender and tapering, un-shortened (ubu); file marks (yasurime): sloping (sujikai); end (nakagojiri): rounded (kurijiri); holes (mekugi-ana): two

Nagasa [length from tip to beginning of tang]: 25.3 cm.; width at start of tempered edge 2.2 cm.

Collar [habaki]: double gold

In shirasaya (wood storage scabbard)

Accompanied by a Hozon token certificate, no. 330933, 7 October Heisei 4 (1992), issued by the the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai (Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Art Sword)





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Kaisendo Museum, Yamagata, Japan
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