A USHU TANTO

Lot 179
17.09.2024 00:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1301701
Lot 179 | A USHU TANTO
Estimate value
$ 5 000 – 7 000
A USHU TANTO
EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY), SIGNED KUNISHIGE SAKU
Configuration [sugata]: hira-zukuri with iori-mune, no curvature
Forging pattern [jihada]: itame
Tempering pattern [hamon]: nodare, with nioi
Point [boshi]: kaeri-fukai
Tang [nakago]: shape (keitai): slender and tapering, unshortened (machi-okuri); file marks (yasurime): kesho-yasuri; end (nakagojiri): iriyama-gata; holes (mekugi-ana): two
length from tip to beginning of tang [nagasa]: 23.5 cm
Collar [habaki]: single silver
In shirasaya (wood storage scabbard) with attestation by Sato Kan'ichi (1907-1978) for the sword
Scabbard [koshirae]: the black lacquered aikuchi koshirae scabbard decorated in silver and gold lacquer with dragon, applied with silver fuchi-gashira and sayajiri with dragon and clouds, silver kozuka signed Kiyoaki (Goto Kiyoaki; b.1815) and the gilt kogatana signed Kunitomo Mitsuo kore tsukuru; 37.5 cm. long
The mounting accompanied with Tokubetsu kicho shodogu certificate, issued by Nihon bijutsu token hozon kyokai, 23 January (no. 170); the sword had a Tokubetsu kicho token certificate, 26 February 1976 (no. 321290), now missing




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On loan to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 31 December 1973
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