Modern tanto for sunagashi lovers

C0D · June 7, 2023

Modern tanto made by Minamoto Shigehide, real name Shibuichi Fumi (四分一二三), born September 27th 1912, he signed first with Akishige (昭重) and studied under Satō Akinori (佐藤昭則), gō Musen (夢船).
The blade shows a prominent "Norishige style" hada, with predominant masame along the ha resulting in prominent sunagashi and kinsuji in the gunome hamon.
The sugata is koto-like with a visible uchizori and bohi on both sides.
The mei shows this was made as mamori-gatana, so most likely he put an extra effort to make it well.
It's in shirasaya with solid silver habaki.

Nagasa 25.2cm　Motohaba 2.36cm
Kasane 6.8mm Sori uchizori

Mei: 源重秀 Minamoto Shigehide
Nengo: 平成二年正月 Heisei 2 the first month (January 1990)
石塚氏代々 For the future generations of Ishizuka (family)

Price 1200€ plus shipping and Paypal
Please note that buyers from outside EU might face extra costs cause sending blades outside Italy can be troublesome, so i'll need to ship to another EU country in order to export it.