Live Auction 6071Japanese Art & Design
A SHINSHINTO KATANA
Lot 165

A SHINSHINTO KATANA

ATTRIBUTED TO NAOKATSU, EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

Closed16 May 2012

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GBP 3,750

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A SHINSHINTO KATANA
ATTRIBUTED TO NAOKATSU, EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)
Sugata [configuration]: honzukuri, iori-mune, even width, shallow curve, o-kissaki
Kitae [forging pattern]: tight ko-itame blending into muji-hada
Hamon [tempering pattern]: gunome with togari-ba, saka gunome, yahazu gunome, some choji-ba, with tobiyaki
Boshi [tip]: ko-maru
Nakago [tang]: ubu, osuijigai file marks, single mekugi-ana, ha-agari kurijiri
Habaki [collar]: single lightly-gilt copper
Nagasa [length of blade]: 71.4cm.
Koshirae [mounting]: in shirasaya

Specialist note

Accompanied by a certificate of registration as a Tokubetsu Kicho Token [Especially valuable sword] no. 255858 issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai [Society for the Preservation of the Japan Art Sword] on 16th September 1972

Jiro Taro Naokatsu (1804-1858) was the adopted son of Taikei Naotane, and excelled in the Bizen tradition of Naotane and his mentor Suishinshi Masahide. His work is frequently of such fine grain as to be not clearly visible, or muji [groundless] as seen on this sword.