Important Japanese Swords and Armour from the Paul L. Davidson Collection
Important Japanese Swords and Armour from the Paul L. Davidson Collection
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Description
A Horikawa School wakizashi
Signed Echigo no kami Fujiwara Kunitomo
Edo period, 17th century
Sugata [configuration]: shinogi-zukuri, iori-mune, tori-zori, chu-kissaki
Kitae [forging pattern]: bright ko-itame hada densely packed
Hamon [tempering pattern]: notareba and moderate yakiba, in very fine jinie
Boshi [tip]: slight ko-maru boshi with turnback
Nakago [tang]: ubu, single mekugi-ani
Habaki [collar]: double clad, gold on copper
In shirasaya [plain wood scabbard] with sayagaki
Nagasa [length from kissaki to machi]: 54 cm., 21¼ in.
Saki-haba [width at the yokote]: 2.2 cm., ⅞ in.
Moto-haba [width at the machi]: 3 cm., 1¼ in.
Accompanied by a certificate of registration as Tokubetsu Hozon Token [Sword Especially Worthy of Preservation], no. 155283 issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai [Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Art Sword], dated Heisei 23 (2011).
Art of the Samurai: The Paul L. Davidson Collection (New York, 2023), p. 47.
