A MUSASHI SHITAHARA NAGINATA MOMOYAMA PERIOD (CIRCA 1575-1580), SIGNED BUSHU SHITAHARA [NO] JU YASUSHIGE Configuration ( sugata ): naginata ; length ( nagasa ): 1 shaku , 6 sun , 6.5 bu (50.5cm.); carving ( horimono ): outside: naginata-hi , inside: a branch of flowering plum. Forging pattern ( jihada ): mokume . Tempering pattern ( hamon ): hako-midare in clusters of three continuing into an extremely shallow toran . Point ( boshi ): small and rounded ( ko-maru ) with long kaeri . Tang ( nakago ). Shape ( keitai ): long (49.5cm.), slender, and unshortened ( ubu ); file marks ( yasurime ): rounded ( kurijiri ); holes ( mekugi-ana ): one; signature ( mei ): Bushu Shitahara [no] ju Yasushige . Shirasaya . Naginata-koshirae , Edo period (second half, 17th century), comprising: a dense nashiji saya decorated in silver and fundame hiramaki-e with Tokugawa aoi-mon and the shochikubai (pine, plum and bamboo); a sentoku kojiri, sakawa and dogane engraved with scrolling foliage; an iron ichogata ishizuki --length of koshirae 270cm.; length of saya 65.2cm. Silk storage bag. Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 144671, dated Showa 43 (1968); and a tokubetsu kicho koshirae certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 109, dated Showa 43 (1968).
A MUSASHI SHITAHARA NAGINATA MOMOYAMA PERIOD (CIRCA 1575-1580), SIGNED BUSHU SHITAHARA [NO] JU YASUSHIGE Configuration ( sugata ): naginata ; length ( nagasa ): 1 shaku , 6 sun , 6.5 bu (50.5cm.); carving ( horimono ): outside: naginata-hi , inside: a branch of flowering plum. Forging pattern ( jihada ): mokume . Tempering pattern ( hamon ): hako-midare in clusters of three continuing into an extremely shallow toran . Point ( boshi ): small and rounded ( ko-maru ) with long kaeri . Tang ( nakago ). Shape ( keitai ): long (49.5cm.), slender, and unshortened ( ubu ); file marks ( yasurime ): rounded ( kurijiri ); holes ( mekugi-ana ): one; signature ( mei ): Bushu Shitahara [no] ju Yasushige . Shirasaya . Naginata-koshirae , Edo period (second half, 17th century), comprising: a dense nashiji saya decorated in silver and fundame hiramaki-e with Tokugawa aoi-mon and the shochikubai (pine, plum and bamboo); a sentoku kojiri, sakawa and dogane engraved with scrolling foliage; an iron ichogata ishizuki --length of koshirae 270cm.; length of saya 65.2cm. Silk storage bag. Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho token certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 144671, dated Showa 43 (1968); and a tokubetsu kicho koshirae certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 109, dated Showa 43 (1968).
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