A LONG TACHI WITH SCABBARD

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$ 35 000
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21.03.2023 10:00UTC -04:00
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ID 922426
Lot 76 | A LONG TACHI WITH SCABBARD
A LONG TACHI WITH SCABBARD

MUROMACHI PERIOD (16TH CENTURY), SIGNED BISHU INUYAMA JU KANENORI SAKU, DATED BUNROKU GONEN NIGATSU KICHIJITSU (2ND MONTH 1596)

Configuration [sugata]: hon-zukuri with iori-mune, curvature torii-zori, o-kissaki

Forging pattern [jihada]: itame with mokume

Tempering pattern [hamon]: gunome with togariba, fine nioi, ashi, sunagashi, yo

Point [boshi]: gunome on omote, notare on ura

Tang [nakago]: unshortened (ubu); holes (mekugi-ana): one, file marks (yasurime): hawk feather (taka no ha); end (nakagojiri): rounded slants to the cutting-edge (haagari-kurijiri)

Nagasa [length from tip to beginning of tang]: 126cm.; Sori [curvature]: 4.8cm.; Motohaba [width at start of tempered edge]: 4.02cm.; Sakihaba [width before tip]: 3cm.

Collar [Habaki]: single copper

In shirasaya [wood storage scabbard]

Mounting [Koshirae]: Black lacquer scabbard, a large iron round tsuba pierced with a wheel, 16.1cm diam., the hilt wrapped in brown, overall 191.5cm

The blade accompanied by a Tokubetsu hozon token (Sword especially worthy of preserving) no. 1018581, issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai (Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Art Sword), dated 25 August 2022





Literature

Unidentified publication, “Swordsmiths under Inuyama castle”, p.37-38
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