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BIZEN HIKOBEIJŌ SUKESADA (ACTIVE CIRCA 1598-1599) A Broad Bizen Katana in Fine Lacquer and Silver Mounts Momoyama period (1573-1615), dated 1599 image 1
BIZEN HIKOBEIJŌ SUKESADA (ACTIVE CIRCA 1598-1599) A Broad Bizen Katana in Fine Lacquer and Silver Mounts Momoyama period (1573-1615), dated 1599 image 2
BIZEN HIKOBEIJŌ SUKESADA (ACTIVE CIRCA 1598-1599) A Broad Bizen Katana in Fine Lacquer and Silver Mounts Momoyama period (1573-1615), dated 1599 image 3
BIZEN HIKOBEIJŌ SUKESADA (ACTIVE CIRCA 1598-1599) A Broad Bizen Katana in Fine Lacquer and Silver Mounts Momoyama period (1573-1615), dated 1599 image 4
BIZEN HIKOBEIJŌ SUKESADA (ACTIVE CIRCA 1598-1599) A Broad Bizen Katana in Fine Lacquer and Silver Mounts Momoyama period (1573-1615), dated 1599 image 5
BIZEN HIKOBEIJŌ SUKESADA (ACTIVE CIRCA 1598-1599) A Broad Bizen Katana in Fine Lacquer and Silver Mounts Momoyama period (1573-1615), dated 1599 image 6
BIZEN HIKOBEIJŌ SUKESADA (ACTIVE CIRCA 1598-1599) A Broad Bizen Katana in Fine Lacquer and Silver Mounts Momoyama period (1573-1615), dated 1599 image 7
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BIZEN HIKOBEIJŌ SUKESADA (ACTIVE CIRCA 1598-1599)
A Broad Bizen Katana in Fine Lacquer and Silver Mounts
Momoyama period (1573-1615), dated 1599

26 October 2022, 10:00 EDT
New York

US$35,000 - US$45,000

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BIZEN HIKOBEIJŌ SUKESADA (ACTIVE CIRCA 1598-1599)

A Broad Bizen Katana in Fine Lacquer and Silver Mounts
Momoyama period (1573-1615), dated 1599
Sugata (configuration): honzukuri, iorimune with a wide mihaba, extended kissaki and toriizori curvature
Kitae (forging pattern): itame hada based in jinie
Hamon (tempering pattern): flamboyant chōji-gunome midare in nioi and nie with ashi, yō, sunagashi and kinsuji
Bōshi (tip): midarekomi
Nakago (tang): ōsuriage with three holes and kiri file marks, signed Bizen no kuni no jū Osafune Hikobei[jō Sukesada], and dated Keichō yonen hachigatsu kichi[jitsu] (An auspicious[day] in the eighth month of 1599)
Habaki (collar): one-piece gilt-copper
Nagasa (length from tip to beginning of tang): 24 1/2in (62.2cm)
Motohaba (width at start of tempered edge): 1 1/2in (3.8cm)
Sakihaba (width before tip): 1in (2.5cm)
In a shirasaya (wood storage scabbard) with inscription and attestation by Dr. Honma Junji
The nineteenth-century koshira-e comprising a gold kinji lacquer saya decorated with hollyhock crests in gold hiramaki-e, the top section finished in wide ribs of black and brick-red, the section around the koiguchi with scrolling vines in low-relief red lacquer on a black ground, the koshira-e mounted with matching silver fittings decorated with cherry blossoms carved in relief with gold highlights, including a tsuka with panels of blossoming cherry trees in high relief against a tight nanako ground, tsuchime-ji fuchi-gashira with cherry trees with highlights in gold takazōgan, signed Katō Hideyoshi and with a kaō; kozuka and wari-kōgai decorated to match the tsuka; and a rounded square plate ishime-ji tsuba with a branch of blossoming cherry in gold, silver, and shakudō takazōgan with a gold-inlaid signature
With a Tokubetsu Kichō Tōken (Especially Precious Sword) certificate # 221945 issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Tōken Hozon Kyōkai (Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Art Sword), dated October 2, 1968
With a Hozon Tōken (Sword Worthy of Preservation) certificate # 388589 issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Tōken Hozon Kyōkai (Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Art Sword), dated June 21, 2011
With a Hozon Tōsōgu (Sword Fitting Worthy of Preservation) certificate # 464051 issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Tōken Hozon Kyōkai (Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Art Sword), dated November 2, 2011

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