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A KATANA A KATANA
KAMAKURA-MUROMACHI PERIOD, MUROMACHI PERIOD, 16TH CENTURY
14TH CENTURY 刀、室町時代、16世紀
刀、鎌倉 - 室町時代、14世紀
Sugata [configuration]: Hon-zukuri, tori-zori with bo-hi on each
Sugata [configuration]: Shinogi-zukuri with deep tori-zori, lower side, changing to futatsu-hi on the upper part of the
ko-kissaki, iori-mune blade, chu-kissaki and iori-mune.
Kitae [forging pattern]: A tight mokume, itame hada with a faint Kitae [forging pattern]: Ko-mokume, some ko-itame
utsuri Hamon [tempering pattern]: Nie-deki, suguha based, some
Hamon [tempering pattern]: Ko-gunome in nioi and ko-nie, midare
based on suguha with gunome-ashi Boshi [tip]: Ko-maru with kaeri
Boshi [tip]: O-maru with short kaeri Nakago [tang]: Ubu with single mekugi-ana, kuri-jiri, mumei
Nakago [tang]: Ubu with 2 mekugi-ana, ha-agiri, kuri-jiri, mumei In shirasaya [plain wood scabbard]
Nagasa [length from kissaki to machi]: 76.2 cm, 30 in. Nagasa [length from kissaki to machi]: 72.9 cm, 28 2/3 in.
Saki-haba [width at the yokote]: 1.5 cm, 10/17 in. Saki-haba [width at the yokote]: 2.2 cm, 13/15 in.
Moto-haba [width at the machi]: 3 cm, 1 1/4 in. Moto-haba [width at the machi]: 3.2 cm, 1 1/4 in.
In katana koshirae: in cha-ishime saya with iron kojiri, the tsuka
with blue ito over white same, shakudo menuki of shell design ‡ £ 3,000-5,000
and shakudo nanako fuchi-kashira, the oval tsuba of iron with € 3,400-5,700 US$ 3,950-6,600
six sukashi mon in gilt, all mumei
Please see images overleaf, on page 29.
‡ £ 5,000-8,000
€ 5,700-9,100 US$ 6,600-10,600

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A CHISA-KATANA
THE KOSHIRAE MEIJI PERIOD, LATE 19TH
CENTURY
小さ刀 拵、明治時代、19世紀後期
Sugata [configuration]: Hon-zukuri with bo-hi, shallow tori-zori,
chu-kissaki and iori-mune
Kitae [forging pattern]: Muji hada
Hamon [tempering pattern]: Midare but based on suguha in
ko-nie
Boshi [tip]: Ko-maru with kaeri
Nakogo [tang]: Ubu with 2 mekugi-ana, ha-agari kuri-jiri, mumei
Nagasa [length from kissaki to machi]: 60.8 cm, 24 in.
Saki-haba [width at the yokote]: 2 cm, 11/14 in.
Moto-haba [width at the machi]: 3.1 cm, 1 2/9 in. 33 (part lot)
In koshirae with silver mounts, which include kabuto-gane,
ko-jiri, koi-guchi and kurikata all in silver depicting turbulent
seas, the menuki are of dragons in gold, both tsuka and saya
are in an angled ribbed lacquer in iroe hiramaki-e imitating
strips of same, the shakudo tsuba of Iri-mokko-gata form with
a dragon carving in kata-kiri, signed Kaei 4 [1851] Doshi Moto
Saku, Goto Homyo Ichijo (Kao)
Accompanied by a certificate of registration as Tokubetsu
Hozon Token for the tsuba, issued by the Nihon Bijitsu Token
Hozon Kyokai [Society for the Preservation of the Japanese
Art Sword].
‡ £ 25,000-30,000
€ 28,200-33,800 US$ 33,000-39,500
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