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Catalogue Number One
260. A
Bizen Osafune Tachi
Muromachi
Period, dated 1490, signed Bishu Osafune
Tadamitsu
Configuration
(sugata)
with longitudinal ridge line (shinogi zukuri),
shallow peaked back (iori-mune), and small point
(ko-kissaki), length (nagasa) : 2 shaku, 3 sun,
2 bu (70cm): curvature (sori): strong koshi-zori
of 2.2cm: increase in width of blade (fumbari):
1.1cm: carving (horimono): futatsujihi with
maru-dome.
Forging
Pattern (jihada): Small wood grain approaching
pear skin (ko-itame/nashiji)
Tempering
Pattern (hamon): medium suguba in excellent
ko-nie, becoming slightly wider at the yokote
with insinuations of swept sands (sunagashi) in
the monouchi.
Point
(boshi): small and rounded (ko-kissake).
Tang
(nakago): Shape (keitia): regular and
unshortened (ubu); file marks
(yarisume):sujikai: end (nakagojiri): rounded
(kurijiri): holes (meguki-ana): three: Signature
(tachimei): Bishu Osafune Tadamitsu, dated
Entoku 2 (1490), eighth month
Shirasaya.
Kenuki
tachi-koshirae in full silver mounts, 19th
century, comprising: a nashiji lacquer saya
decorated with jomon and kaiemon of the
Matsudaira family of Kameyama: The tsuka
decorated with stylized jomon: the remainder of
the fuchi mounts in silver: deerskin
ashigawa-length of koshirae 99cm, length of
tsuka 24.2cm: tsuba height 8.1cm, width 7.6cm,
thickness 9mm.
Wood
storage box. Brocade and silk storage bags.
Accompanied
by an origami by Hon’ami Tadaaki, dated Bunkyu 1
(1861): a futsu kicho token certificate issued
by the NBTHK, no number, dated showa 34 (1959):
and a tokubetsu kicho koshirae certificate
issued by the NBTHK, no number, dated showa 34
(1959). $60,000-$80,000.
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