Kawachi no Kami Sukesada
河内守祐定 (Kawachi no Kami Sukesada)
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Kawachi no Kami Sukesada
Bizen Osafune, Genroku era: kikumon and the character ichi before the signature, a horimono with the Heart Sutra formula, 2.7 cm of sori and NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon papers. Yokoyama Jinzaemon, who signed Kawachi no Kami Sukesada, was one of the leading names of the Osafune school in the shintō period; he received the title of Kawachi no Kami in the fifth month of 1701 and places before his signature the sixteen-petal chrysanthemum followed by the character ichi, the kiku-ichimonji mark of the Yokoyama family. The blade measures 66.4 cm of nagasa with 2.7 cm of sori, a very deep curve, and 2.81 cm of motohaba, giving a slender outline. The hada is a tight ko-itame with faint utsuri and the hamon a deliberately restrained suguha-chō, in keeping with what distinguishes this blade: a horimono carved with the formula “Maka Hannya Haramita”, from the Heart Sutra, beside a motif of bamboo and plum. The photographs show a sound tang with kurijiri, even patina, a single mekugi-ana and a crisply cut kikumon. NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon papers; supplied with an Edo-period koshirae with kawari-nuri saya and with a shirasaya.
55.6/100
€11,980
