|
Date: |
|
Description: | Artist: HARIMA NO KAMI TACHIBANA YOSHINARI, maker;
Production Place: Japan; Date(s): 1625 - 1675 [HELM.O.271b-1946]
Description: Sugata: [configuration]: honzukuri, even curve, medium pointchu-kissaki
Kitae: [forging pattern]: fine ko-itame, almost appears grainless, with ji-nie
Hamon [tempering pattern]: long sloping yakidashi becoming a tight sudare-ba
Boshi [tip]: komaru
Horimono [carving]: non
Nakago [tang]: ubu, katte sagari file marks, two holes, iriyamagata tip
Habaki [collar]: copper clad with shakudo, and with a ‘windswept’ paulownia in gold level inlay
Nagasa [length of blade]: blade 74.2cm, tang 22.3cm, curvature 1.5cm
Koshirae [mounting]: Daisho mounting, the scabbard with fragments of shell inlaid into the black lacquer and polished smooth, a paper label reads ‘Mutsu-n-kami, probably the lord of Sendai, 1868), fuchi-kashira of a shishi before a torent emerging from a rocky surround with bamboo grasses in high relief with gold inlay on a shakudo nanako ground, menuki missing from the wakizashi, menuki on the katana of gilt shishi, kozuka iron with three plovers and pines in copper and silver inlay, the kogatana signed CHIKUSHU MIIKE JU HIROMASA, the round iron tsuba of the wakizashi pierced with water plantains, height 7.8cm, width 7.3cm, the tsuba of the katana iron mokko shape with chiselled lengthwise striations and one kozuka-hitsu. overall length of the wakizashi 71.0cm | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | weapons HARIMA NO KAMI TACHIBANA YOSHINARI sword | Temporal: | name=Edo period; start=1625; end=1675 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
|
More Like this...
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
wakizashi
; Classification(s): weapons, sword [0.6-1973]…
-
|