A BIZEN YOSHIOKA ICHIMONJI NAGINATA KAMAKURA PERIOD (LATE 13TH CENTURY), SIGNED ICHI Configuration ( sugata ): naginata ; length ( nagasa ): 2 shaku , 2 bu (63.8 cm.); carving ( horimono ): naginata-hi on both sides. Forging pattern ( jihada ): wood and burl grains ( itame mokume ). Tempering pattern ( hamon ): clove-like patterns ( choji ) and some shallow notare in nie and nioi . Point ( boshi ): continuing from the hamon into a chu-maru with slight turn-back. Tang ( nakago ). Shape ( keitai ): regular and unshortened ( ubu ); file marks ( yasurime ): indistinct, possibly slanted ( katte-sagari ); end ( nakagojiri ): rounded ( kuri-jiri ); holes ( mekugi-ana ): one; signature ( mei ): Ichi . Shirasaya . Accompanied by a juyo token certificate, no. 3324, Showa 45 (1970), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.
A BIZEN YOSHIOKA ICHIMONJI NAGINATA KAMAKURA PERIOD (LATE 13TH CENTURY), SIGNED ICHI Configuration ( sugata ): naginata ; length ( nagasa ): 2 shaku , 2 bu (63.8 cm.); carving ( horimono ): naginata-hi on both sides. Forging pattern ( jihada ): wood and burl grains ( itame mokume ). Tempering pattern ( hamon ): clove-like patterns ( choji ) and some shallow notare in nie and nioi . Point ( boshi ): continuing from the hamon into a chu-maru with slight turn-back. Tang ( nakago ). Shape ( keitai ): regular and unshortened ( ubu ); file marks ( yasurime ): indistinct, possibly slanted ( katte-sagari ); end ( nakagojiri ): rounded ( kuri-jiri ); holes ( mekugi-ana ): one; signature ( mei ): Ichi . Shirasaya . Accompanied by a juyo token certificate, no. 3324, Showa 45 (1970), issued by the N.B.T.H.K.
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