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Well forged Jumonji Yari in full polish , Comes with original pole , Saya with Mon and leather saya cover, Mounted in Shirasaya
Higo Enju Nobukatsu (肥後 延寿宣勝) ‒ Enju Nobukatsu from Higo province
Nagasa 8 sun 3 bu kore ari (⻑さ八寸三分有之) ‒ Blade length ~ 25.1 cm
Signature: Enju Nobukatsu saku ‒ Kaei gannen sangatsu hi
(延寿宣勝作・嘉永元年三月日) ‒ “Made by Enju Nobukatsu
on a day in the third month of Kaei one (1848)”
Tsukurikomi (造り込み) ‒ Shape: Chidori-Jūmonji-zukuri
Kitae (鍛) ‒ Forging: dense Itame
Hamon (刃紋) ‒ Hardening: chū-Suguha
Bōshi (鋩子) ‒ Hardening in tip: Sugu with Kaeri
Nakago (中心) ‒ Tang: mekugi-ana (目釘穴) 2, yasurime (鑢): Sujikai
NOBUKATSU (宣勝), Bunkyū (文久, 1861-1864), Higo – “Enju Nobukatsu” (延寿宣勝), “Tōhi Yūfu-jū Takenaga Kizō ́emon no Jō Enju Nobukatsu saku” (東肥熊府住武永喜三右衛門尉延寿宣勝作), real name Takenaga Kizō ́emon (武永喜三右衛門), he was a smith of Higo ́s Kumamoto fief (熊本藩) which he also signed by its other name Yūfu (熊府), he came originally from Mimasaka province where he had been a student of Tada Masatoshi (多田正利), he moved later to Edo and studied under Hosokawa Masayoshi (細川正義), we know blades from the end of the Tenpō (天保, 1830-1844) until the Meiji era (明治, 1868-1912), he died in Meiji four (1871) at the age of 75
