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INOUE SHINKAI (1630-1682) A Fine Shinkai Katana Edo period (1615-1868), dated 1682 image 1
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INOUE SHINKAI (1630-1682)
A Fine Shinkai Katana
Edo period (1615-1868), dated 1682

26 October 2022, 10:00 EDT
New York

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INOUE SHINKAI (1630-1682)

A Fine Shinkai Katana
Edo period (1615-1868), dated 1682
Sugata (configuration): honzukuri, iorimune, chūgissaki, toriizori
Kitae (forging pattern): flowing ko-itame hada, rich in jinie
Hamon (tempering pattern): notare mixed with gunome, broadening toward the upper third of the blade, with nie and some sunagashi
Bōshi (tip): suguha, komaru
Horimono (carving): bōhi on both sides
Nakago (tang): ubu with keshō-sujikai file marks, one hole, signed Inoue Shinkai, and dated Tenna ninen hachigatsu no hi (A day in the eighth month of 1682)
Habaki (collar): two-piece, gold-foil
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 a Tokubetsu Kichō Tōken (Especially Precious Sword) certificate # 71687 issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Tōken Hozon Kyokai (Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Art Sword), dated March 9, 1963

Footnotes

Published
Iimura Kasho, ed., Shintō taikan, vol. 2, Tōken Bijutsu Kōgeisha, 1976, p.364
Nakamiya Yoshirō, Ōsaka shintō zufu, Tokyo: Yūzankaku, 1967, p.540

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