A SHINSHINTO BIZEN YOKOYAMA WAKIZASHI EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1830), SIGNED KIKU ICHI BIZEN OSAFUNE (NO) KYO/YOKOYAMA KAGA (NO) SUKE FUJIWARA SUKENAGA Configuration ( sugata ): with longitudinal ridge line ( shinogi-zukuri ), shallow peaked back ( iori-mune ) and medium point ( chu-kissaki ); length ( nagasa ): 1 shaku , 3 sun , 7.5 bu (41.8cm.); curvature ( sori ): koshi-zori of 1.0cm.; increase in width of blade ( fumbari ): 0.8cm. Forging pattern ( jihada ): extremely fine and tightly-compacted wood grain ( ko-itame ). Tempering pattern ( hamon ): a very crisp suguba in the upper half of the blade displaying a crisp habuchi and also firm control of the ko-nie ; the lower half breaks suddenly into a clove ( choji ) formation and drops to a yaki-dashi . Point ( boshi ): medium rounded ( chu-maru ). Tang ( nakago ). Shape ( keitai ): Bizen, ubu and with a thin, dry, grey patina; file marks ( yasurime ): slanted ( katte-sagari ); end ( nakagojiri ): ha-agari kuri-jiri ; holes ( mekugi-ana ): one; signature ( katanamei ): inside ( ura ): Kiku Ichi Bizen Osafune Kyo ; outside ( omote ): Yokoyama Kaga (no) Suke Fujiwara Sukenaga . Shirasaya . Silk storage bag. Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate, no. 348045, Showa 52 (1977), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.
A SHINSHINTO BIZEN YOKOYAMA WAKIZASHI EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1830), SIGNED KIKU ICHI BIZEN OSAFUNE (NO) KYO/YOKOYAMA KAGA (NO) SUKE FUJIWARA SUKENAGA Configuration ( sugata ): with longitudinal ridge line ( shinogi-zukuri ), shallow peaked back ( iori-mune ) and medium point ( chu-kissaki ); length ( nagasa ): 1 shaku , 3 sun , 7.5 bu (41.8cm.); curvature ( sori ): koshi-zori of 1.0cm.; increase in width of blade ( fumbari ): 0.8cm. Forging pattern ( jihada ): extremely fine and tightly-compacted wood grain ( ko-itame ). Tempering pattern ( hamon ): a very crisp suguba in the upper half of the blade displaying a crisp habuchi and also firm control of the ko-nie ; the lower half breaks suddenly into a clove ( choji ) formation and drops to a yaki-dashi . Point ( boshi ): medium rounded ( chu-maru ). Tang ( nakago ). Shape ( keitai ): Bizen, ubu and with a thin, dry, grey patina; file marks ( yasurime ): slanted ( katte-sagari ); end ( nakagojiri ): ha-agari kuri-jiri ; holes ( mekugi-ana ): one; signature ( katanamei ): inside ( ura ): Kiku Ichi Bizen Osafune Kyo ; outside ( omote ): Yokoyama Kaga (no) Suke Fujiwara Sukenaga . Shirasaya . Silk storage bag. Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate, no. 348045, Showa 52 (1977), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.
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