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MEIJI PERIOD (19TH CENTURY), SIGNED KURIHARA CHIKUZEN [NO] KAMI, TAIRA [NO] ASON NOBUHIDE
Details
A Shin-Shinto tanto
Meiji period (19th century), signed Kurihara Chikuzen [no] kami, Taira [no] ason Nobuhide
Sugata [configuration]: hira-zukuri, with no curvature, mune-hikushi
Kitae [forging pattern]: muji
Hamon [tempering pattern]: hoso-suguha
Boshi [tip]: o-maru
Nakago [tang]: suriage with katte-sagari file marks, one mekugi-ana, hira-yamagata
Habaki [collar]: single gold-clad and shakudo, each side with gilt-inlaid bonji
Nagasa [length of blade]: 29.3cm
Horimono [carving]: carved in high relief with Fudo Myoo standing on an altar of flames on the omote and inscribed Takeru on the ura above the hamachi
Accompanied by a certificate of registration as a Tokubetsu kicho token (Sword worthy of preserving) no. 93307 issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai (Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Art Sword), dated 1964.12.5
Meiji period (19th century), signed Kurihara Chikuzen [no] kami, Taira [no] ason Nobuhide
Sugata [configuration]: hira-zukuri, with no curvature, mune-hikushi
Kitae [forging pattern]: muji
Hamon [tempering pattern]: hoso-suguha
Boshi [tip]: o-maru
Nakago [tang]: suriage with katte-sagari file marks, one mekugi-ana, hira-yamagata
Habaki [collar]: single gold-clad and shakudo, each side with gilt-inlaid bonji
Nagasa [length of blade]: 29.3cm
Horimono [carving]: carved in high relief with Fudo Myoo standing on an altar of flames on the omote and inscribed Takeru on the ura above the hamachi
Accompanied by a certificate of registration as a Tokubetsu kicho token (Sword worthy of preserving) no. 93307 issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai (Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Art Sword), dated 1964.12.5
Literature
Echigo tokoshi ten: Nobuhide to sono shuhen (Exhibition of the history of Echigo swordsmithery: Nobuhide and those around him) (Niigata: Broadcasting System of Niigata Museum, 1984), no. 22.
Exhibited
Broadcasting System of Niigata Museum, "Echigo tokoshi ten: Nobuhide to sono shuhen" (Exhibition of the history of Echigo swordsmithery: Nobuhide and those around him), 1984.6.9-7.8
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