Description

This tanto is signed by Hokkyo Koansai Toshinaga, a smith from Mino province active around the Tenna era (early Edo period). The blade features a wide body and thick kasane, with koshi-hi engravings and a suaka single habaki. The ji-gane is itame with small ji-nie, and the hamon is a gunome midare with ashi.

短刀 銘 法橋弘安斎壽命

短刀 銘 法橋弘安斎壽命

Tantō

¥300,000

Era

Kanbun (1661-1673)

Specifications

Nagasa

22.6 cm

Motohaba

2.54 cm

Dealer

Choshuya

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