ID 813455 
Lot 101  | A BIZEN OSAFUNE TANTO
Estimate value
$ 12 000 – 18 000 
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)
Provenance
Kaisendo Museum, Yamagata, Japan
| Historical era: | Kamakura period | 
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| Place of origin: | Eastern Asia, Japan | 
| Category: | Swords | 
| Historical era: | Kamakura period | 
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| Place of origin: | Eastern Asia, Japan | 
| Category: | Swords | 
| Address of auction | 
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