Sword Called Wakisashi With Nbthk Certificate And Koshirae Soriomono - Signed - Circa 1650-1700

Sword 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 Funa Gata (boat hull), Ha Hagari Kuri Jiri (irregular ‘U’).
Copper habaki covered with interlocking two-part shakudo.
Wooden saya covered in 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 in shagreen 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, in copper covered with shakudo decorated with a series of horses enhanced with gold and silver.
Seppa in copper.



Reference : 5555



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