HOSOKAWA MON

(ENJU) NOBUKATSU (fss-279)

Mei: mumei   Date: keio 1865
Nagasa : 9 1/2 "
Width at the ha-machi: 25.6 mm
Thickness at the mune-machi: 5.8 mm
Construction: hira-zukuri
Mune: iori
Nakago: ubu
Kitae: ko-mokume
Hamon: o-notare
Boshi:  notare
Condition:  polished no flaws

 

 

This tanto is in a full polish and is well made.  The hamon has very good activity and the hada is dark and very well forged. Nobukatsu was in the Mimasaka Tada Masanori Mon, and later worked in Edo in the Hosokawa Mon. He died in 1871.  This sword has nice mounts that were good quality and also received papers from the NTHK so its a very nice tanto for a collector.

  

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KOSHIRAI

 

PAPERS
NTHK KANTEI-SHO

DEN ENJU NOBUKATSU

Shôshin

Length: 8 sun

September 19m 2004

NTHK

On back:

Mei: Mumei

Kitae: Ko-mokume

Hamon: Ô-notare

Bôshi: Notare returning in a hint of togari

Nakago: One mekugi ana, yasurime is kiri

Remarks: Around Keio (1865), Higo no Kuni

Kanteisho

Black lacquer saya with gold and silver maple leaves.

Tantô Koshirae

Shôshin

April 28, 2007

NTHK

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Dimensions: 37.3 cm

Remarks:

Tsuka: White same

Maki: Black ito, Kumi-age maki

Fuchi-Kashira: Sahkudô nanako ji, suemon takabori, gold and silver inlay, orchid theme

Menuki: Shakud⌠ katachibori (in the round), gold inlay, rain draogn theme

Tsuba: Brass ji, Kawari tate-mate gata, Kin zôgan, ko-sukashi, kaku

(square) mimi, Chinese Monk? theme

Kozuka: Brass ji, takabori, silver and copper inlay, seashell theme

Saya: Black lacquer, momiji (malple leaf) maki-ie (gold and silver

painting) saya

Meiji Era

 

This tanto comes polished in shirasaya and with mounts and tsunagi, also it is accompanied with papers on the blade as well as the koshirai.

This sword is on consignment.

*SOLD*
 

 

Order number  for this item is : fss-279

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