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 katana
Signed Awataguchi Omi no kami Tadatsuna, Asai uji (For a member of the Asai clan, Awataguchi Omi no kami Tadatsuna)
Edo period, 17th century
Sugata [configuration]: shinogi-zukuri, iori-mune, shallow sori, chu-kissaki
Kitae [forging pattern]: ko-choji midare in nioi
Hamon [tempering pattern]: generally itame with ko-mokume in places, with ashi, yo and sunagashi
Boshi [tip]: small rounded turnback
Horimono [carvings]: the omote with fine dragon horimono, the ura with bonji above gomabashi and two crescent-shaped markings
Nakago [tang]: ubu, ha-agari kurijiri, two mekugi-ana
Habaki [collar]: single clad, silver on copper
In shirasaya [plain wood scabbard]
Nagasa [length from kissaki to machi]: 75.8 cm., 29⅞ in.
Sori [curvature]: 1.1 cm., ¼ in.
Saki-haba [width at the yokote]: 2.1 cm., ¾ in.
Moto-haba [width at the machi]: 3.1 cm., 1¼ in.
Accompanied by a certificate of registration as Hozon Token [Sword Worthy of Preservation], no. 300617 issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai [Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Art Sword], dated Showa 58 (1983).
Art of the Samurai: The Paul L. Davidson Collection (New York, 2023), p. 42.
Awataguchi Tadatsuna, first active in Kyoto. He then proceeded to Himeji in Harima Province, and finally to Osaka around the middle of the seventeenth century. By repute, his family were said to be descendants of the Kamakura period smith Awataguchi Kunitsuna of the Yamashiro school.
