A HIZEN KATANA
Lot 432

A HIZEN KATANA

SIGNED HIZEN KUNI FUJIWARA HIROSADA, EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY)

Closed9 November 2011

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GBP 1,875

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A HIZEN KATANA
SIGNED HIZEN KUNI FUJIWARA HIROSADA, EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY)
Sugata [configuration]: honzukuri, broad even curve with chu-gissaki
Kitae [forging pattern]: ko-itame
Hamon [tempering pattern]: tight choji hamon of nioi with ko-nie
Boshi [tip]: midare-komi with ko-maru
Nakago [tang]: suriage and machi-okuri katte-sagari file marks, two mekugi-ana, ha-agari kurijiri
Habaki [collar]: single gold-clad copper
Nagasa [length of blade]: 58.9cm.
Koshirae [mounting]: in shirasaya

Specialist note

Accompanied by a certificate of registration as a Tokubetsu Hozon Token [Sword especially worthy of preservation] no. 142248 issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai [Society for the Preservation of the Japan Art Sword] on 9th June 1997
This blade is by the first generation Hirosada, a pupil of Tadayoshi I, who was later re-named Yoshiie. He died in 1666 at the age of 82.
The name was succeeded by Omi no kami Hirosada, son of Kanehiro and pupil of Tadakuni, who was active around the Jokyo era (1684 - 1688).