Sabre Known As Katana - Japan - Edo Period (1603–1868)

SWORD known as a Katana
Japan
Edo period (1603–1868)
Steel, wood, lacquer, gold, iron, shakudo, sentoku, silver
Nagasa: 76.2; Nakago: 22.3 cm
Sori: 1.3 cm

Shinogi tsukuri blade, mune hikushi, gunome-style hamon.
Funa gata nakago and ha hagari kuri jiri.
Yujo-habaki made of chiseled copper.
Wooden saya covered in red lacquer, decorated five times with the Sen-goku family’s kaye-mon (secondary crest), a pair of kote, a pair of abumi, a yadate, and a hata-jirushi; all bearing the ku-yô (nine stars—ku = nine); jô-mon (primary crest) of the Kitsu-kawa, Maki-ta, Oku-daïra of O-bata, Sakura-i, Sô-maTo-da of I-tô of Oka-da, Maki-no of Ta-nabe and Ko-muro, Oku-daïra of Oshi, Nam-bu, Ō-gyū of Fu-nai, Ō-ku-bo of Karasu-yama, Sa-kaki-bara, and To-zawa.
Kojiri in sentoku, openwork with two stylized hearts and scroll-shaped stars in copper and shakudo. Kuri-gata and koi-guchi decorated in a matching style, with a chiseled brass shitodome.
Wooden tsuka-ito, covered in stingray skin and braided with beige silk.
Fuchi and kashira in sentoku, decorated with scrollwork stars in copper and shakudo.
Menuki depicting two horsemen, made of iron and accented with silver and gold.
Iron shin no maru gata tsuba, chiseled with a hossu, a kura, and a hilt, all accented with shakudo and gold.
Seppa in gilded, chiseled copper.

Ref. 7392

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