A Boy's Tachi
Signed Teishitsu Gigeiin Miyamoto Kanenori saku and dated Meiji yonju sannen gogatsu kichijitsu [an auspicious day in May 1907]
The blade slendor honzukuri, deeply carved, chu-kissaki, the hada ko-itame, hamon ko-notare with some gunome of large nie, yaki-tsume boshi, with a single copper habaki pierced with an inome, length 46.4cm., the tachi koshirae with nashiji lacquered saya, the tachi kanagu all matching of shakudo migakiji with fine silver and gold itozogan of stylised flowers and scrolling, the menuki of processional figures resting in shakudo with gold inlay
A Boy's Tachi
Signed Teishitsu Gigeiin Miyamoto Kanenori saku and dated Meiji yonju sannen gogatsu kichijitsu [an auspicious day in May 1907]
The blade slendor honzukuri, deeply carved, chu-kissaki, the hada ko-itame, hamon ko-notare with some gunome of large nie, yaki-tsume boshi, with a single copper habaki pierced with an inome, length 46.4cm., the tachi koshirae with nashiji lacquered saya, the tachi kanagu all matching of shakudo migakiji with fine silver and gold itozogan of stylised flowers and scrolling, the menuki of processional figures resting in shakudo with gold inlay
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