Sword called Katana in shirasaya with koshirae, dated and signed with certificates - August 1540

Frédéric Coridon

Description

Sword called Katana in shirasaya with koshirae, dated and signed Ho-Shu Fujiwara Hisashige Saku and Tenbun kyu nen Hachi Gatsu nichi with certificates
Bungo Province (Oita), Japan
Muromachi period August 1540 (天文九年八月日: Tenpo 9th year 8th month)
Steel, wood, lacquer, copper, horn, gold, shakudo, iron
Nagasa: 69; Nakago: 16.2 cm
Sori: 2.6 cm

Shinogi tsukuri type blade, mune hikushi, choji ashi iri type hamon.
Boshi type o maru.
Nakago funa gata et ha hagari kuri jiri, dated and signed Ho-Shu Fujiwara Hisashige Saku (豊州藤原久重作) and Tenbun kyu nen Hachi Gatsu nichi (天文九年八月日).
Copper daitsuki-niju-habaki and shakudo.
Saya made of wood covered with black lacquer.
Kuri gata made of lacquered buffalo horn.
Chiseled brass shitodome.
Black silk sageo.
Wooden tsuka ito, covered in shagreen, braided with black silk.
Menuki depicting leafy motifs, enhanced with gold and shakudo.
Tsuba naga maru gata in openwork iron, chiseled with plum blossoms and leaf motifs.
Kotsuka-hitsu full in shakudo.
Copper sekigane.
Fuchi and kashira in copper covered with shakudo, carved with monks sitting on pontoons, under plum trees, enhanced with gold, silver and shibuichi.
Seppa in chiseled gilt copper.