Description

* wakizashi, mumei: Tegai (手掻), ô-suriage Blade length ~40.9 cm, 1 mekugi-ana, shôbu-zukuri, kitae is standing-out ko-itame with chikei, ji-nie, and masame in the shinogi-ji. The hamon is a quite nie-laden chû-suguha with a little notare, conspicuous hotsure, and kinsuji. The ôshi has a long running-back ko-maru-kaeri with a hint of hakikake at the tip. From the tsukurikomi, this blade could be mixed up with a Muromachi-era Mihara work at a glance but the jigane does not show shirake and the jiba is too nie-laden, and when we combine this with the conspicuous hotsure, we rather arrive at the Tegai School. However, the bôshi does not show that much hakikake as older Tegai works do and with the long ko-maru-kaeri, we can place this blade in the early Muromachi period and in the vicinity of for example Kanetoshi (包俊). (Comes with a sayagaki that was added on behalf of our Okayama Prefecture member Hirozane Yukio, 広実幸雄.)