Japanese Sword, Shinto Wakizashi With Koshirae Japan Edo Period (1603-1868).

Japanese sword, SHINTO WAKIZASHI with KOSHIRAE
Japan, Edo period (1603-1868).
Steel, silver, wood, gold, lacquer
Total length: 40 cm - Blade length (Nagasa): 30.2 cm
Nakago: 9.8 cm - Curvature (Sori): 0.1 cm

HIRA TSUKURI blade, MOKUME HADA, with SANBON SUJI yakiba.
Funa Gata (boat hull) type nakago.
Silver Higo-habaki.
Aikushi mount (koshirae).
Wooden tsuka, covered with red leaves dotted with gold on a black lacquer background. Screw mekugi, in chiseled silver in the shape of a plum blossom. A finely chiseled silver decoration, forming fushi and kashira, representing plum blossoms with gold centers and branches.
Black lacquered wooden scabbard (saya) dotted with gold flowers and butterflies; a chiseled silver decoration, matching the tsuka, forms a tree bark pattern at the koiguchi and long foliage at the kojiri.
Silver kosuka decorated with plum blossoms in keeping with the tsuka; steel kogatana with engraved decoration.

A rare piece in very good condition.

Ref.: 6234

Text and photos © FCP CORIDON