Higo Kikuchi Yari
KK538
A large Kikuchi Yari signed Okidai. An extremely thick and unusually long kikuchi yari converted to a wakizashi. Hawatare: 1 saku 1 sun 2 bu 1 rin ( 33.97 cm / 13.375") Motohaba: 1.8 cm. Kasane: 1.38 cm. Suguba ko-notare midare with ko-gunome, based in konie. Keisho polish makes the hamon appear fairly wide, but the actual hamon is quite narrow. Very bright narrow habuchi, the kinsuji are as diminutive as the the hamon. The jigane is masame with chikei. There is one area of shintetsu. Kikuchi yari are a product of Higo in koto times. The earliest are short, and becoe elongated in Muromachi. . Mounted in shirasaya with a gold foil habaki, and accompanying koshirae. This has never been to shinsa, having come out of an old collection. I cannot find reference to Okidai, which may alternatively be the name of the swod.. In new polish, gold foil habaki , shirasaya and accompanying koshirae.
The early Edo koshirae is unusual, mounted without kurikata, which i frequently seen in kwaiken. Brocade on the tsuka and saya with gold nishiji in the center. The brocade is somewhat compromised. $3,950.
Long Chikei
Shintetsu
Okidai
1.38 cm interior opening