Sabre Called Katana Signed Yoshitsugu, With Certificate - Musashi Province, Japan - February 1697

Katana signed Yoshitsugu, with certificate
Musashi Province, Japan
Edo period (February 1697), 10th year of the Genroku era (Genroku Ju Nen)
Steel, wood, lacquer, copper, horn, gold, shakudo, iron, silver
Nagasa: 72.4; Nakago: 21.2 cm
Sori: 1.6 cm
(Minor damage to the saya)


Kata shinogi-style blade, mune hikushi, gunome-style hamon.
O maru-style boshi.
Funa-gata nakago and ha hagari kuri jiri, signed Chikuzen Fukuoka-Ju Nobukuni Minamoto Yoshitsugu Oite Bushu Edo Koreo-Kitaer / Genroku Ju Nenu (10th year of the Genroku era)
(筑前福岡住信国源吉次 於武州江戸鍛之/元禄十年二月日).
Copper habaki, silver-plated and chiselled.
Wooden saya, coated in black lacquer.
Kojiri, kuri-gata, koi-guchi in black-lacquered buffalo horn.
Wooden tsuka-ito, covered in shagreen, braided with black silk.
Menuki depicting two samurai, in copper, gold and silver.
Shin no maru-style tsuba in iron overlaid with shakudo, chiselled with a copper oni in a storm; a golden constellation engraved on the reverse; signed.
Sekigane in copper.
Fuchi in copper overlaid with shakudo, chiselled with a horse tied to a tree, beside a waterfall, the whole enhanced with gold and silver.
Kashira in copper overlaid with shakudo, engraved with a samurai seated under a tree, the whole adorned with gold and silver.
Chiselled copper seppa.

Certificate.

Ref.: 6985

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