A SHINSHINTO MIMASAKA NAGINATA EDO PERIOD, DATED BUNKA 13 (1815), SIGNED SAKUYO-SHI KANETOSHI TSUKURU Configuration ( sugata ): naginata without yokote and with a tri-bevelled back ( mitsu-mune ); length ( nagasa ): 1 shaku , 4 sun , 6.5 bu (44.5cm.); carving ( horimono ): naginata-hi on either side. Forging pattern ( jihada ): a fine pear skin ( nashiji ). Tempering pattern ( hamon ): suguba with some gonome in nie and with prolific ji-nie . Point ( boshi ): medium rounded ( chu-maru ). inside ( ura ): cleaned and ubu ; file marks ( yasurime ): kesho-yasuri and vertical; end ( nakagojiri ): ha-agari kuri-jiri ; holes ( mekugi-ana ): one; signature ( mei ): Sakuyo-shi Kanetoshi tsukuru ; date ( jidai ): Bunka 13-nen 8-gatsu hi (a day in the 8th month of Bunka 13 [1815]). Shirasaya . Silk storage bag. Accompanied by a futsu kicho token certificate, no number, Showa 34 (1959), by the N.B.T.H.K.
A SHINSHINTO MIMASAKA NAGINATA EDO PERIOD, DATED BUNKA 13 (1815), SIGNED SAKUYO-SHI KANETOSHI TSUKURU Configuration ( sugata ): naginata without yokote and with a tri-bevelled back ( mitsu-mune ); length ( nagasa ): 1 shaku , 4 sun , 6.5 bu (44.5cm.); carving ( horimono ): naginata-hi on either side. Forging pattern ( jihada ): a fine pear skin ( nashiji ). Tempering pattern ( hamon ): suguba with some gonome in nie and with prolific ji-nie . Point ( boshi ): medium rounded ( chu-maru ). inside ( ura ): cleaned and ubu ; file marks ( yasurime ): kesho-yasuri and vertical; end ( nakagojiri ): ha-agari kuri-jiri ; holes ( mekugi-ana ): one; signature ( mei ): Sakuyo-shi Kanetoshi tsukuru ; date ( jidai ): Bunka 13-nen 8-gatsu hi (a day in the 8th month of Bunka 13 [1815]). Shirasaya . Silk storage bag. Accompanied by a futsu kicho token certificate, no number, Showa 34 (1959), by the N.B.T.H.K.
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