Saber Called Wakizashi Signed Echigo No Kami Kanesada In Shirasaya With Koshirae - 17th Century

SABER called Wakizashi signed Echigo no kami Kanesada in shirasaya with koshirae
Japan

Edo period (1603-1868)
Early 17th century
Steel, wood, lacquer, silk, shakudo, gold, copper
Nagasa: 52.1 ; Nakago: 13.1 cm
Sori: 1.4 cm
(Old damage)


Kata Shinogi blade, Mune Hikushi, Chu Suguha temper line.
Nakago Funa Gata and Ha Hagari Kuri Jiri (‘irregular U’), signed Echigo no kami Kanesada.
Yujo-habaki in copper covered with silver.
Wooden Saya, covered in black lacquer and glittered with green.
Blue sageo.
Kojiri, Kuri gata, Koi guchi, Fuchi - signed Yoshiaru and Kashira in silver shibushi covered with shakudo, chased with a pearled rough sea.
Copper shitodome.
Wooden Tsuka, covered in shagreen, braided with navy blue silk.
Kogatana with Kotsuka in silver covered with shakudo chased with a house by the water; engraved blade.
Menuki representing two tigers in silver covered with shakudo.
Tsuba Hachi Mokko engraved with a bird on the ground overhung by clouds, the edges are in silver covered with shakudo.
Seppa in chased gilt copper.


Reference : 5881

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