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SABRE called Wakisashi with NBTHK certificate and Koshirae Soriomono
Signed Echizen no Kami Masamichi
Japan - Edo period (1603-1868)
Circa 1650-1700
Steel, wood, lacquer, silk, gold, copper, shakudo, brass, silver
Length of cutting edge (Nagasa): 45.7 cm
Nakago: 14.5 cm - Curvature (Sori): 1.2 cm
Weight: 387 g
(Slightly missing)
Shinogi Tsukuri blade, Mune Hikushi, Chu Suguha temper line.Nakago type Funa Gata (boat hull), Ha Hagari Kuri Jiri ("U" irregular).
Shakudo-covered copper habaki in two interlocking parts.
Saya in wood, covered with black lacquer.
Koigushi, Kojiri and Kurigata in wood covered with black lacquer.
Kogatana with copper Kotsuka, decorated with two horses in relief enhanced with gold; steel blade.
Tsuka in wood, covered with stingray and braided with lacquered black silk.
Tsuba Kawari Gata in openwork iron, representing a horse with brass eyes; copper sekigane.
Menuki in copper covered with gold and shakudo, representing two horses.
Fuchi Kachira - hallmarked, shakudo-covered copper decorated with a series of horses enhanced with gold and silver.
Seppa in copper.
Item no.: 5555
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