Live Auction 6071Japanese Art & Design
A MINO TACHI
Lot 164

A MINO TACHI

SIGNED KANEUJI, EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

Closed16 May 2012

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GBP 2,125

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A MINO TACHI
SIGNED KANEUJI, EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)
Sugata [configuration]: honzukuri, slender with shallow even curve, ko-kissaki
Kitae [forging pattern]: vivid itame
Hamon [tempering pattern]: rounded gunome
Boshi [tip]: Jizo type
Nakago [tang]: suriage, two mekugi-ana, file marks are osujigai on the tachi-ura and sujigai with some kesho on the omote, two character signature on the tachi omote
Habaki [collar]: single copper
Nagasa [length of blade]: 66.5cm.
Koshirae [mounting]: military mounting with Edo period mokko iron tsuba with agriculturalists and boy flautist in gilt copper inlay

Specialist note

One of a number of smiths signing with the name Kaneuji after the 14th century smith Shizu Saburo Kaneuji who migrated from Yamato to Naoe in Mino province working there up to the 19th century.