Live Auction 7316The Japanese Aesthetic
A HIZEN KATANA
Lot 253

A HIZEN KATANA

SIGNED HIZEN KUNI YOSHITADA AND DATED KIGEN NISEN ROPPYAKU NEN (1940)

Closed7 November 2012

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GBP 1,250

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A HIZEN KATANA
SIGNED HIZEN KUNI YOSHITADA AND DATED KIGEN NISEN ROPPYAKU NEN (1940)
Sugata [configuration]: honzukuri, iori-mune, even curve, chu-kissaki
Kitae [forging pattern]: ko-itame
Hamon [tempering pattern]: suguha with some nijuba, hotsure, and kuichigaiba of nioi with ko-nie
Boshi [tip]: apparently ko-maru
Nakago [tang]: ubu, file marks kiri, single mekugi-ana, ha-agari kurijiri
Habaki [collar]: single gold-clad copper
Nagasa [length of blade]: 68.6cm.
Koshirae [mounting]: gunto koshirae with black-lacquered metal-clad saya

Specialist note

The smith, Kinoshita Koichi (d. 1953) of Nagasaki, was adopted into the school of Tadayoshi of Hizen province, taking the name Yoshitada reversing the two characters of the name Tadayoshi. He became an army smith, and continued making swords in the Hizen tradition after the war.