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Japanese SWORD, Tanto
Japan
Edo period (1603-1868)
Steel, wood, lacquer, silk, brass, shakudo, gold, copper, silver, iron, sentoku
Length of the cutting edge (Nagasa): 28.6 cm
Nakago: 9.7 cm - Curvature (Sori): 2 mm
Shobu Tsukuri type blade, Mune Hikushi, Notare type tempering line.
Nakago of Funa Gata type (boat hull), Kata Yamagata (asymmetrical), signed. Yojo-Habaki in copper covered with silver
Saya in wood, covered with textured red lacquer.
Koigushi and Kurigata in buffalo horn.
Kogatana with Kotsuka in iron engraved with foliate and geometric patterns in copper enhanced with gold; blade signed.
Tsuka in wood, covered with shagreen and braided with lacquered black green silk.
Openwork Kawari Gata tsuba, in sentoku engraved with an eagle overlooking pine branches and sparrows.
Copper menuki representing a heron and a turtle, enhanced with gold.
Fuchi in buffalo horn, Kachira in copper covered with shakudo, decorated with a gold and copper pine, silver plum blossoms
Gilded copper seppa.
Very good condition.
Ref.: 5320
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