Ietsugu

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Submitted by kazarena on Mon, 2009-12-28 22:33


Sword ID	0000-0161
Mei	家次作 ietsugu saku
Type	Katana	Tsukurikomi	Shinogi-zukuri
Nagasa (cm)	73.23	Sori (cm)	2.7
Moto-haba (cm)	2.9	Saki-haba (cm)	1.9
Moto-kasane (cm)	0.6	Saki-kasane (cm)
Mekugi	2	Nakago	Ubu

Attribution


Smith	Ietsugu	School	Hashizume
Period	Muromachi (1394-1570)	Year
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Location	Private
Certificate Type	NBTHK Hozon	Certificate ID

Nakago	NBTHK Hozon pa...	Full length vi...	Blade close-up...	Blade close-up...	Blade close-up...
Full length	Full length	Blade	Nakago	Kissaki	Kissaki
Two sides	Mei

Workmanship and style

Shape and construction

The graceful and fully intact sugata of this sword is a very important point of appreciation. The blade is in koshi-zori.

Horimono

Double hi on both sides. The hi are polished away in a few spots.

Hamon

Highly active gunome midare. Ko-nie in nioi with a soft nioi-guchi. Hataraki of ashi, yo and sunagashi are plentiful. Togari can be seen in some areas. Hamon is yakiotoshi, beginning about 1 cm above the ha-machi.

Boshi

Notare-komi ending in ko-maru. Nice nie activity and streaked with vibrant lines of ko-nie on one side.

Jitetsu and hada

Ko-mokume with tobiyaki. The blade has some kitae-ware due to many polishes.

Nakago

The length is 19.5 cm. Nakago is ubu with 2 mekugi-ana. Shape is standard with sori and iryayama-gata.

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