A Shin-shinto wakizashi with Goto school koshirae | Edo period, 18th century

The Property of a Gentleman

A Shin-shinto wakizashi with Goto school koshirae

Edo period, 18^th century 

Sugata [configuration]: Hirazukuri, slightly saki-zori

Kitae [forging pattern]: Tight ko-mokume jihada 

Hamon [tempering pattern]: Ko-midare into the boshi, with a long kaeri, in ko-nie

Boshi [tip]: Ko-maru

Horimono [carvings]: Bonji, suken, kanji on the ura

Nakago [tang]: Two mekugi-ana, mumei, marujiri

Habaki [collar]: Gold

Koshirae [mount]: Black lacquer saya, the fuchi-kashira and are all shakudo with details in gilt, of blossoming peonies, the gilt and shakudo menuki of two chrysanthemum flowers, the kozuka gilt with shakudo, decorated with a chrysanthemum spray, the tsuka is black ito, the tsuba with a katydid among leaves and flowers

Nagasa [length from kissaki to machi]: 37. cm., 14 ¾ in. 

Saki-haba [width at the yokote]: 2.5 cm., 1 in. 

Moto-haba [width at the machi]: 2.9 cm., 1 ⅛ in. 

The koshirae: 61 cm., 24 in.