Katana, Shirasaya, Koshirae

[ Signature ] omote : "兼常"　ura : -

[ Size ] Blade length 33.5cm (1 shaku 1 sun 0 bu 5 rin), sori 0.7cm (2 bu 3 rin), moto-haba 3.13cm, moto-kasane 0.66cm, mekugi-ana(holes) 2, blade weight 289.5g , shirasaya length 54cm, koshirae length 73.5cm

[ Province ] Mino "美濃"

[ Feature ]
Form : Hira-zurkuri. Mitsu-mune. Mihaba is wide. Kasane is relatively thick. Saki-zori attached.
Nakago : Yasuri is higaki. Saki is shallow kuri-jiri. Two holes.
Engravings horimono : Both on omote and ura sides, there are bô-his. They stop in round shape maru-dome above machi, machi-ue.
Jigane : Itame-hada, grained and more or less they come to surface. Nagare-masa mixed. Jinie attached. Chikei appeared. Shirake-utsuri comes to appear.
Hamon : Gunome-midares. Ko-gunomes and ko-notares mixed. Ko-ashis appeared. Nioi-kuchi is clear. Along with ha-buchi, fine sunagashis appeared.
Boushi : It becomes jizô style. At saki, tobi-yaki tempered. It turns deep.

鳳凰文螺鈿黒蝋色塗鞘脇差拵 : 秋草図鐔(山銅地鋤出高彫象嵌色絵)、 獅子図目貫(赤銅容彫)、獅子図縁頭(赤銅魚々子地うっとり色絵)、獅子図笄(赤銅地金色絵)

[ Highlight ]
Length is short. Mihaba is wide. Deep sori attached. Strong form. Itame-hada, which comes to surface a little, mixed some changes. For mune side, shirake-utsuri comes to appear, which has yaki-dashi-utsuri. Gunome-midare hamon which tempered width is wide. A ko-wakizashi. It has been said that this sword hand down Kishû Tokugawa family. Addition to excellence of sword, painted sheath, which has Chinese phoenix pattern mother-of-pearl decoration, is so elegant. Even, a pair of fuchi-gashira, tsuba, a pair of menuki, shitodome metal fittings and tsuka-skin are extremely excellent. The attribution sounds convincing. Kanetsune school was a swordsmith group of Mino. From Ô-ei "応永", Muromachi period, there were some generation. In Shintô era, their descendants moved to Unshû and Musashi provinces. They worked actively.

[ Conditions ] Sword blade maintains healthy state and conditions. Koshirae, as well in excellent conditions. No kozuka-kogatana attached.

[ Attachments ] Habaki (suaka-ji, gold foiled, double), shirasaya, bag of shirasaya, koshirae, bag of koshirae and NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon paper ( issued on 3rd July Heisei 18(2006))

[ Item number ] A090619 [ Price ] JPY 1,350,000- (shipping and insurance fee are not included)