A NAGASONE KATANA

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Lot 106 | A NAGASONE KATANA
A NAGASONE KATANA

EARLY EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY), SIGNED NAGASONE OKISATO NYUDO KOTETSU

Configuration [sugata]: hon-zukuri, iori-mune, shallow curvature, chu-kissaki, bohi on both side with kaku-dome

Forging pattern [kitae]: fine ko-itame with ji-nie

Tempering pattern [hamon]: gunome midare in notare, deep nioi in lower part, some sunagashi, kinsuji in upper part of blade

Tip [boshi]: broad komaru with hakikake

Tang [nakago]: ubu, file marks (yasurime): katte-sagari, end (nakagojiri): Ha-agari kurijiri tip, holes (mekugi-ana): three (one plugged)

Length from tip to beginning of tang [nagasa]: 71cm.; curvature 1.4cm.; width at start of tempered edge 3.2cm.; width before tip 2.2cm.

Collar [habaki]: double-gilt copper

In shirasaya (plain wood scabbard)

Mounting [koshirae]: Red lacquer katana koshirae, shibuichi ishimeji fuchi-kashira, shakudo menuki formed as a bull, eyes in gilt, iron tsuba carved with two bulls, 99.5cm

Accompanied by a Tokubetsu Hozon Token certificate (Sword especially worthy of preserving), no.101907, 3 August 1988 issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai (Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Art Sword)





Provenance

Okubo Tadahiro known as Ichio (1818-1888), by repute

Kaisendo Museum, Yamagata, Japan



Literature

Sugihara Shozo ed., Nagasone Kotetsu no Kenkyu (The study on Nagasone Kotetsu) (Osaka: Sugihara Nihontogaku kenkyujo, 1926), rf. 55.

Honma Junji and Sato Kanichi in Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai ed., Zoho kaitei Kotetsu Taikan (Overview of Kotetsu, revised and enlarged edition) (Tokyo: Otsuka Kogeisha, 1974), no.174

Ogasawara Nobuo ed., Nagasone Kotetsu Shinko (New study on Nagasone Kotetsu) (Tokyo: Yuzankaku, 1973), p.157

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