swords and lenght II daisho for child

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Hi all,

 

I want to share a very nice and rare daisho pair with you. It belongs to the collection of my good friend Willem Dolphine. It's a rare daisho made for a child of 'probably' some wealthy family. It's the only 'child' daisho we've ever seen (probably there will be more somewere).

Unfortunatly the blades are not polished, (it should be worth polishing them but I think Willem is waiting for 5 more blades at the moment and he have at least another 10 in line that needs a polishing). Here's a description of the measurements cause on picture it looks like a casual daisho.

 

Sugata

 

Shinogi zukuri

Torii sori

O-kissaki

 

50 cm nagasa 28,2 cm

2,6 cm motohaba 2,3 cm

1,9 cm sakihaba 1,7 cm

0,5 cm kasane 0,5 cm

11,2 cm nakago 8,3 cm

Jitetsu is hard to see but I guess itame.

 

Hamon is a gunome, tight nioguchi with fine nie. Some sunagashi is visable. I think it would show more activities after polishing.

Some gunome are hako others are slanting a little. Boshi is hard to see but seems to be midare.

 

Nakago is ubu and mumei (1 mekugi).

Nakagoyiri is iriyama-gata.

Yasurimei is sujikai.

 

Greetings Michael

detail willem.pdf

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some more picture

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Here some details of the urushi nuri and menuki.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

M.

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and a composition.........