A BIZEN WAKIZASHI
SIGNED YOKOYAMA ISE (NO) KAMI SUKEHIRA KORE (WO) TSUKURU, DATED BUNKA YONEN HACHIGATSU HI [EIGHTH MONTH OF 1807], AND BIYO OSAFUNE TOMONARI GOJUHACHI-DAI SHISON [58TH GENERATION AFTER TOMONARI]
Details
Sugata [configuration]: shinogi-zukuri, shallow tori-zori, chu-kissaki Kitae [forging pattern]: tight ko-mokume Hamon [tempering pattern]: wide ko-midare, almost suguha, nioi with some nie Boshi [tip]: suguha, o-maru with kaeri Nakago [tang]: ubu, ha-agari jiri, yoko-yasuri Habaki [collar]: gold Koshirae [mounting]: a ribbed red lacquer scabbard, fuchi-kashira of shakudo with running demons, the fuchi signed Nanbi, leather-bound tsuka [hilt], iron tsuba pierced and carved with squirrels among grape vine with gilt details, iron kojiri with shakudo and gilt inlays with vine, shakudo kozuka with a warrior on horseback on a bridge, menuki of gilt snakes 44.8 cm. long (blade); 63.5 cm. long (koshirae) Machi-haba and saki-haba (blade width at two separate points): 3 cm. (machi) and 2.4 cm. (saki)
