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2269
AN IMPORTANT KASHU KAGEMITSU TACHI WITH MOUNTS
Muromachi period (1333-1573), 15th-16th century
Sugata (configuration): honzukuri, iorimune, koshizori, chu-gisskai
Kitae (forging pattern): ko-itame mixed with mokume with much
botan utsuri
Hamon (tempering pattern): gunome midare with sunagashi
Boshi (tip): midarekomi
Nakago (tang): ubu with one mekugi ana signed Kagemitsu (tachi
mei)
Habaki (collar): one-piece, solid gold
Nagasa (length from tip to beginning of tang): 28in (71.1cm)
Motohaba (width at start of tempered edge): 1 1/8in (2.92cm)
Sakihaba (width before tip): 3/4in (1.98cm)
Kasane (thickness of the blade): 7/32in (0.6cm)
In a shirasaya (wood storage scabbard) with inscription by Hon’ami
Koson, dated 1938
With an additional shirasaya
The modern efu-dachi goshirae comprising a black-lacquer saya
decorated in stripes of black ishime, the hardware all silver migaki-ji
and pierced with inome, the tsuka of shagreen lacquered black and
applied with silver paulownia leaves and bosses, doe-skin hangers
stenciled with scrolling vines
With a Tokubetsu Kicho (Especially Precious) certificate no. 364341,
issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai (Society for the
Preservation of the Japanese Art Sword) dated November 4, 1978

US$30,000 - 40,000

Provenance
Ogasawara daimyo family, Shinano Province (present day Nagano
Prefecture), by repute
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945)
Steven H. Janovick, late of Company K, 85th infantry, 10th Colorado
Mountain Division

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