Ordering Number: AS24497

Wakizashi in Shirasaya with Koshirae(NBTHK Hozon Paper)
Signature : Mumei (Osafune Morokage　長船師景)

Sayagaki:
Osuriage Mumei Yoshioka Ichimonji
blade length: 1 Shaku 8 Sun
written by Kanzan in Summer 1972

(We divide 4 sections for each sword as Saijyo saku, Jyo-jyo saku Jyo saku and regular saku)
This sword belongs to Saijo Saku ranking.

Habaki : Gold foiled single habaki.
Blade length : 54.8 cm (21.57 in)
Sori :1.5 cm (0.59 in)
Mekugi : 2
Width at the hamachi : 2.88 cm (1.13 in)
Width at the Kissaki : 1.85 cm (0.72 in)
Kasane : 0.63 cm (0.24 in)
The weight of the sword 500 grams.
Era: the early Muromachi period, the 15th century
Shape: Osuriage Mumei blade with deep curveture and long kissaki.
Jigane: fine KO-itame hada with Jinie and Midare-Utsuri.
Shinogi-Ji: Masa is mixed
Hamon: Ko-nie deki clear Choji midare with Ko-ashi, Yo, Kinsuji and Sungashi. Boshi is midare.

Special feature:
Osafune Morokage was a son of Morikage and active around Ouei era. This piece has a very good quality of Jigane and Hamon. Jigane is fine and has random Utsuri, and much Sunagashi and Kinsuji in the Hamon create a complex lines.

Koshirae:
Tsuba: Round-shaped shakudo Tsuba with a picture of a Samurai riding a horse.
Saya: wrapped in ray skin.
Menuki: carving of eel

NBTHK Hozon Certificate
Aoi Art estimation paper
whole Oshigata

Auction Starting Price:750,000JPY