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Tadamitsu II (active 1487-1500) A Bizen wakizashiMuromachi period (1336-1573), dated 1488 image 1
Tadamitsu II (active 1487-1500) A Bizen wakizashiMuromachi period (1336-1573), dated 1488 image 2
Tadamitsu II (active 1487-1500) A Bizen wakizashiMuromachi period (1336-1573), dated 1488 image 3
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Tadamitsu II (active 1487-1500)
A Bizen wakizashi
Muromachi period (1336-1573), dated 1488

27 October 2021, 10:00 EDT
New York

Sold for US$7,012.50 inc. premium

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Tadamitsu II (active 1487-1500)

A Bizen wakizashi
Muromachi period (1336-1573), dated 1488
Sugata (configuration): honzukuri, iorimune, chu-gissaki, toriizori
Kitae (forging pattern): tightly packed ko-itame hada in jinie
Hamon (tempering pattern): gunome midare with some ko-choji and nie, ashi, and yo
Boshi (tip): ko-maru
Horimono (carving): bohi on both sides
Nakago (tang): ubu with katte sagari file marks, two holes, signed Bishu no Osafune ju Tadamitsu and dated Chokyo ninen hachi gatsu no hi (A day in the eighth month of 1488)
Habaki (collar): one-piece, gold-foil, worked on the surface
Nagasa (length from tip to beginning of tang): 27 3/8in (69.5cm)
Motohaba (width at start of tempered edge): 1 1/8in (2.8cm)
Sakihaba (width before tip): 3/4in (1.9cm)
In a shirasaya (wood storage scabbard)

With Hozon Token (Sword Worthy of Preservation) certificate no. 3007868 issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai (Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Art Sword), dated February 5, 2015

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