Photographs
Photographs by the seller at origin.
The piece
Hizen shintō with a single mekugi-ana and NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon papers, in a koshirae with a square nanban tsuba of pierced dragon and gold-highlighted nō-prop fuchi-kashira.
Ōmi Daijō Fujiwara Tadahiro is the name that followed the first Tadayoshi at the head of the Hizen school in Saga province, and much of the house's seventeenth-century output is signed with it. This blade measures 68.48 cm of nagasa with 1.67 cm of sori. The tang retains a single mekugi-ana and the signature bears no date. The blade holds NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon papers. The mounting deserves attention of its own: a square nanban tsuba with a pierced dragon, an imported fitting uncommon in a Japanese koshirae; iron fuchi-kashira carved with nō theatre implements picked out in gold; menuki in the form of a jūmonji-yari; and a saya lacquered in glossy black. No shirasaya is included, so the blade can only be kept inside its mounting until one is commissioned.
Strong points
- Ōmi Daijō Tadahiro, the great Hizen name after the first Tadayoshi
- A single mekugi-ana
- Square nanban tsuba with a pierced dragon
- Iron fuchi-kashira with nō theatre implements picked out in gold
- NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon papers
Points to bear in mind
- No shirasaya is included
- The signature carries no date
- Neither the state of the tang nor the blade's preservation is stated
Score
85.2 pointscurrent max. 255
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Certificate
+50
NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon paper +50
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Tang
+5
Tang not declared, with a single mekugi-ana +5
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Declared condition
−20
The original seller says nothing about the condition −20
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Signature and date
+15
Signed, with no engraved date +15
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Mounting
+5
Mounting described, undated +5
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Blade
+5
68.5 cm: close to the usable range +5
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Shirasaya
+5
With a storage shirasaya +5
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Price
+20.2
Price: the more affordable, the more points +20.2
The score adds and subtracts points for each feature of the piece and has no ceiling: the highest in the catalogue today is 255. It is computed from the record, not from an opinion. The mounting starts from what is known of its period, adds what vouches for it (its own NBTHK paper, a signed fitting, a crest) and subtracts what has been restored (saya, ito, same, habaki or sageo).
Measurements
- Nagasa
- 68.5 cm
- Sori
- 1.7 cm
- Tang
- Tang not declared
- Certificate
- NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon
- Mounting
- Modern mounting
- Storage shirasaya
- Yes
- Smith
- Ōmi Daijō Tadahiro
- Period
- Shintō (1596-1780)
- Dating
- Edo period
- Province
- Hizen (Saga)
- Mekugi-ana
- 1
- Condition
- Condition not declared
- Signed
- Yes
- With an engraved date
- No
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