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Lot 704
An Echigo tachi
MUROMACHI PERIOD (14TH CENTURY), SIGNED MOMOKAWA SAKU NAGAYOSHI
Closed23 March 2011
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An Echigo tachi
Muromachi period (14th century), signed Momokawa saku Nagayoshi
Sugata [configuration]: shinogi-zukuri with deep curvature, mune-hikushi and o-kissaki
Kitae [forging pattern]: muji
Hamon [tempering pattern]: hoso-suguha
Boshi [tip]: kaeri-fukashi
Nakago [tang]: ubu with katte-sagari file marks, three mekugi-ana, ha-agari kurijiri
Habaki [collar]: single gold-clad copper
Nagasa [length of blade]: 72.7cm
Horimono [carving]: both sides carved with hisaki-sagari bo-hi with an integrated carving of a sword near the hamachi on the ura
Accompanied by a certificate of registration as a Tokubetsu kicho token (Sword worthy of preserving) no. 13149 issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai (Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Art Sword), dated 1955.1.13
Muromachi period (14th century), signed Momokawa saku Nagayoshi
Sugata [configuration]: shinogi-zukuri with deep curvature, mune-hikushi and o-kissaki
Kitae [forging pattern]: muji
Hamon [tempering pattern]: hoso-suguha
Boshi [tip]: kaeri-fukashi
Nakago [tang]: ubu with katte-sagari file marks, three mekugi-ana, ha-agari kurijiri
Habaki [collar]: single gold-clad copper
Nagasa [length of blade]: 72.7cm
Horimono [carving]: both sides carved with hisaki-sagari bo-hi with an integrated carving of a sword near the hamachi on the ura
Accompanied by a certificate of registration as a Tokubetsu kicho token (Sword worthy of preserving) no. 13149 issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai (Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Art Sword), dated 1955.1.13
An Echigo tachi
Muromachi period (14th century), signed Momokawa saku Nagayoshi
Sugata [configuration]: shinogi-zukuri with deep curvature, mune-hikushi and o-kissaki
Kitae [forging pattern]: muji
Hamon [tempering pattern]: hoso-suguha
Boshi [tip]: kaeri-fukashi
Nakago [tang]: ubu with katte-sagari file marks, three mekugi-ana, ha-agari kurijiri
Habaki [collar]: single gold-clad copper
Nagasa [length of blade]: 72.7cm
Horimono [carving]: both sides carved with hisaki-sagari bo-hi with an integrated carving of a sword near the hamachi on the ura
Accompanied by a certificate of registration as a Tokubetsu kicho token (Sword worthy of preserving) no. 13149 issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai (Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Art Sword), dated 1955.1.13
Muromachi period (14th century), signed Momokawa saku Nagayoshi
Sugata [configuration]: shinogi-zukuri with deep curvature, mune-hikushi and o-kissaki
Kitae [forging pattern]: muji
Hamon [tempering pattern]: hoso-suguha
Boshi [tip]: kaeri-fukashi
Nakago [tang]: ubu with katte-sagari file marks, three mekugi-ana, ha-agari kurijiri
Habaki [collar]: single gold-clad copper
Nagasa [length of blade]: 72.7cm
Horimono [carving]: both sides carved with hisaki-sagari bo-hi with an integrated carving of a sword near the hamachi on the ura
Accompanied by a certificate of registration as a Tokubetsu kicho token (Sword worthy of preserving) no. 13149 issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai (Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Art Sword), dated 1955.1.13
Echigo tokoshi ten: Nobuhide to sono shuhen (Exhibition of the history of Echigo swordsmithery: Nobuhide and those around him) (Niigata: Broadcasting System of Niigata Museum, 1984), no. 35.
Broadcasting System of Niigata Museum, "Echigo tokoshi ten: Nobuhide to sono shuhen" (Exhibition of the history of Echigo swordsmithery: Nobuhide and those around him), 1984.6.9-7.8