Kantei #6 -- Posted Late March 2010
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AOE
Juyo Token, October, 1985
Length: 72.0 cm
Sori: 1.8 cm
Motohaba: 2.75cm
Sakihaba: 1.75 cm
Kissaki Length: 2.6 cm
Nakago Length: 19.0 cm
Nakago Sori: 0.1 cm
Keijo: Shinogi zukuri, maru mune, mihaba ordinary, a bit of koshizori, chu-kissaki
Kitae: Mokume mixed in ko-itame hada, there is a hint of nagare, with abundant ji-nie.
Hamon: Ko-choji and a hint of gunome mixed in a chu-suguba tone, with frequent ko-ashi and yo, there is sunagashi and kinsuji, with ko-nie in a somewhat narrow nioi-guchi.
Boshi: Slightly notare, returning in ko-maru.
Horimono: Kakinagashi bohi on the omote and ura.
Nakago: O-suriage, saki is almost kiri, the yasurime is a shallow katte sagari, one mekugi ana, mumei.
Commentary: As is sung in the Kokinshu [An ancient collection of Japanese poems]
Maganefuku kibi no nakayama tai ni seru hoso tanikawa no oto no sayakesa
Roughly translated: “The tatara form an obi on Nakayama of Kibi (The old name for what is now Bizen, Bitchu, and Bingo), the clarity of the sound of the rivers in the narrow valleys.
The kuni of Bizen has been famous since ancient times as an iron producing region. The toko group of Bitchu flourished in Aoe, in the downstream region of the Takahashi River, and in the works of the Ko-Aoe from the end of the Heian period to the middle of the Kamakura period, none of them have a nenki, but among the Aoe kaji of the late Kamakura period, the nenki of SHOWA (1312-1317), BUNPO (1317-1319), KARYAKU (1326-1329), GENTOKU (1329-1331), GENKO (1331-1334), and KENMU (1334-1336) can be seen.
This katana has been judged to be a work of Aoe dating from the late Kamakura period to the beginning of the Nanbokucho period. It is a piece in which ko-choji and ko-gunome are mixed in a ko-nie deki of a suguba tone. There is abundant ashi and yo inserted, sunagashi and kinsuji have been applied, and the activity in the ha is rich. The mune is ko-maru, but this is also a construction that is sometimes seen in Aoe.
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