Wakizashi-style Sword With Certificate - Japan - Edo Period (1603–1868)

Wakizashi-style sword with certificate
Japan
Edo period (1603–1868)
Steel, wood, lacquer, copper, gold, shakudo
Nagasa: 48.5; Nakago: 12.1 cm
Sori: 1.3 cm
(Slight damage to the saya)


Kata shinogi-style blade, mune takashi, chu suguha-style hamon.
Kaeri asashi-style boshi.
Funa gata nakago and ha hagari kuri jiri.
Etchu-kise-habaki in copper overlaid with gold leaf.
Saya in wood coated with black lacquer.
Kuri gata in lacquered buffalo horn.
Shitodome in chiselled copper.
Sageo in purple silk.
Kotsuka in shakudo and gold, chiselled with two horsemen galloping towards a stormy sea.
Wooden tsuka ito, covered in shagreen and braided with black silk.
Menuki depicting flower-adorned carts.
Naga maru gata tsuba in copper overlaid with shakudo, chiselled with a tiger drinking at the bank of a river at the foot of a bamboo tree, the whole piece highlighted with gold.
Shakudo fuchi, chiselled with a tiger beneath bamboo, highlighted with gold.
Shakudo kashira, engraved with a panther in a bamboo forest.
Chiselled copper seppa, covered with gold leaf.

Certificate.

Ref.: 7355

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