AN OSAKA KATANA

Lot 107
20.09.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 107 | AN OSAKA KATANA
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$ 12 000 – 18 000
AN OSAKA KATANA

EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY), SIGNED IZUMI NO KAMI FUJIWARA KUNISADA

Configuration [sugata]: honzukuri, iori-mune, chu-kissaki

Forging pattern [kitae]: dense ko-itame with jinie

Tempering pattern [hamon]: starting in Osaka yakidashi, wide o-choji of nie with sunagashi, tempering edge close to shinogi at upper part

Tip [boshi]: wide ko-maru with nie, midare return

Tang [nakago]: ubu, file marks (yasurime): o-sujikai, end (nakagojiri): haagari-kurijiri tip, holes (mekugi-ana): one

Length from tip to beginning of tang [nagasa]: 71.2cm, curvature 1.6cm, width at start of tempered edge 3.3cm, width before tip 2.3cm.

Collar [habaki]: single gilt copper

In shirasaya (plain wood scabbard)

Accompanied by a Koshu tokubetsu kicho token (Especially precious sword) certificate, no.4214, 29 June 1975 issued by 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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