Kurihara Kenji Nobuhide (1815-1880) A Musashi Tantō in Fine Mounts Edo period (1615-1868), dated 1862 Of hirazukuri

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KURIHARA KENJI NOBUHIDE (1815-1880) A Musashi Tantō in Fine Mounts Edo period (1615-1868), dated 1862 Of hirazukuri, iorimune configuration forged in itame hada in jinie with a wide nioiguchi , the tempered edge chōji midare with nioi, nie , and sunagashi ending in a ko-maru bōshi with a long return, chiseled with a serpentine dragon on the omote side and a blossoming plum tree on the ura side, the ubu tang with two holes, katte sagari file marks, signed Kurihara Kenji Nobuhide , and dated Bunkyū ninen nigatsu no hi (A day in the 2nd month of 1862), with a one-piece gilt habaki ; the fine 19th-century aikuchi goshira-e mounted with en suite silver fittings decorated with monkeys in persimmon trees, wrestling, or grasping peaches chiseled in high relief and inlaid in gold and copper, the black-lacquer saya finished to resemble tree bark and mounted with a kojiri with a long armed monkey, uragawara and kozuka , the tsuka wrapped in baleen over same with prominent nodules, mounted with menuki and fuchi-gashira , signed Kiyotsugu Nagasa (length from tip of blade to beginning of the tang) 33.5cm (13 1/8in) long. Footnotes: Nobuhide got his initial training as a mirror maker in Kyoto before relocating to Edo to apprentice under Kiyomaro (1813-1854) in 1850. He became independent in 1852 and continued working for almost 25 years, gaining a reputation as a skilled carver of horimono .