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A HIGO ENJU TANTO WITH MOUNTS
By Kunitoki II, Kamakura period (mid-14th century)
Sugata (configuration): hirazukuri, iorimune
Kitae (forging pattern):ko-itame in jinie
Hamon (tempering pattern): suguha
Boshi (tip): ko-maru
Horimono (carving): suken on the omote, goma-bashi on the ura
Nakago (tang): suriage with three holes and katte sagari file marks
and signed Kunitoki
Habaki (collar): two-piece, gold
Nagasa (length from tip to beginning of tang): 11 3/8in (28.9cm)
In shirasaya (wood storage scabbard) with sayagaki by Tanobe
Michihiro

The koshira-e comprising a black-lacquer saya decorated with
small strips of paper under the surface and polished to reveal
mottled patterns and fitted with shakudo nanako kozuka and
kojiri decorated with equestrian accessories in gold and shakudo
takazogan, the tsuka with doeskin wrap over black-lacquered same
and mounted with gold and shakudo menuki and fuchi-gashira, the
shakudo nanako rhomboid tsuba designed with chrysanthemums
on crashing waves
$20,000 - 30,000

Tanobe Michihiro attributed this sword to the second generation
Kunitoki, who worked from around 1346 to 1354.

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