A tanto | Signed Bizen Osafune Kiyomitsu | Muromachi period, dated Tenbun jurokunen hachigatsu hi (a day in the 8th month 1547)

A tanto

Signed Bizen Osafune Kiyomitsu

Muromachi period, dated Tenbun jurokunen hachigatsu hi (a day in the 8^th month 1547)

Sugata [configuration]: hira-zukuri, iori-mune, no curvature

Kitae [forging pattern]: the hada appears muji

Hamon [tempering pattern]: appears choji-midare and gunome in places, yo, utsuri

Boshi [tip]: appears jizo with turnback

Habaki [collar]: silver on copper 

Nakago [tang]: machi-okuri, kurijiri, two mekugi-ana (one plugged)

In shirasaya [plain wood scabbard] with sayagaki inscription

Koshirae [mount]: with black lacquer kizami-saya [ribbed scabbard], silvered fittings chased and engraved with vine and tendril, inlaid silver dew drops, the kozuka and kogai with foliate scrolls, copper-gilt and silver tomoe mon applied to fittings, the menuki in the form of further tomoe mon,

Nagasa [length from kissaki to machi]: 18.3 cm., 7¼ in.

Moto-haba [width at the machi]: 2.1 cm., ¾ in.