9/20/2023 0 Comments Katana length proportion to height![]() Horimono is often found on wakizashi with the design on both sides being the same. ![]() The bottom of the hi is finished around the machi. The top of the hi is located just above the yokote. HORIMONO: Bo-hi with soe-bi or tsure-bi are quite common. Also, one finds suguha mixed with ko-midare or straight suguha. HAMON: It will be nioi-deki and tends to be koshi-no-hiraita midare mixed with choji midare. On occasion, midare-utsuri can be found also. Even when the hamon is midare-ba, the utsuri tends to be bo-utsuri. JIHADA: The jigane is soft and the jihada is mokume-hada mixed with o-hada. Wakizashi generally have narrow mihaba, small kissaki, and saki-zori. This is the period that marked the beginning of the production of katana and wakizashi. Generally, the nagasa of tachi will be about 70 cm and wakizashi will be about 50 cm. These smiths tried to copy the tachi shape of the Kamakura era but these blades are different in that they have a shallow saki-sori rather than a sweeping koshi- zori. SUGATA: There are tachi, katana, and wakizashi of both shinogi– zukuri and hira-zukuri form. The characteristics of the Oei Bizen (応永備前) School are as follows: It is dated as having been made in 1424, the thirty-first year of Oei. The blade shown above is a tantô by the Shodai Yasumitsu. They were collectively known as the Oei no San Mitsu (応永の三光) (three mitsu of the Oei era). The most famous smiths of this period were Yasumitsu (康光), Morimitsu (盛光), and Moromitsu (師光). Oei-Bizen (応永 備前) is the general term for the Osafune smiths who worked in the Oei (応永) era (1394-1428). The various schools gradually lost any distinctive characteristic features they may have had, and began to display the characteristic features of Bizen (備前) workmanship of this period. The Osafune (長船) School had long been the main school in Bizen (備前) province. At the beginning of the Muromachi (室町) era around the Oei (応永) era (1394) most of the different schools in the Bizen (備前) province were virtually absorbed by the Osafune (長船) School.
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