Tanto:Bishu Osafune ju Sukesada
Ordering number : 08140
Sunnobi Tanto in Shirasaya (NBTHK Hozon Paper)
Signature: Bishu Osafune ju Sukesada
Tensho 2 nen 8 gatsu-hi (original is Tenpo 2 nen. August, 1831)
The blade was polished .
Blade length : 33.4 cm or 13.14 inches.
Sori : 1.0 cm or 0.39 inches.
Mekugi: 1
Width at the hamachi : 2.80 cm or 1.10 inches.
Kasane : 0.57 cm or 0.22 inches.
Era : Late Edo period. Tenpo era.(August, 1831)
Shape : This blade is regular sized Hirauchi Sunnobi Tanto with Saki-zori.
Jitetsu : Koitame hada well grained with Jinie attach.
Hamon : Around the Hamachi is Suguha, and change to Gunome midare.
In Ha, there are Much Ashi and Sunagashi work.
Boushi is Maru-Kaeri.
Special feature : In the Muromachi period, Harima, Mimasaka and Bizen province
had been prospered under the protection of the Akamatsu family.
Above all, Bizen province has turned out a great many talented swordsmiths.
Supplying the demand of the Age of Provincial Wars in Japan, a large
number of swords were made there in the late Muromachi period.
Sukesada has become a synonym for the Osafune School though the
founder was Mitsutada. It is regrettable that a deluge devastated the
School in Osafune districts in Tensho era. Such is the way of the world
that even the Osafune School, that prosperity and power had been unparalleled,
perished in this way in the deluge. Old swords are all that is left to tell
how once the swordsmiths lived.
And later, Yoshii ju Sukesada migrate to Osafune, and he made
Yokoyama school and he revived Bizen Osafune school.
This blade is very similar to Yokoyama school blade in last Edo period.
And Deki is so nice.
NBTHK Hozon Paper
Aoi Art estimation paper : whole Oshigata.
Price :JPY 300,000- (including shipping charge and 100% insurance fee)
