A Very Attractive Late Koto To Early Shinto Period Wakazashi With All Its Original Shinto Edo Period Koshirae

Around 440 years old. a powerful and substantial blade, with a two part copper habaki blade collar, and it is bearing a beautiful hamon with suguha hamon. The iron fuchi kashira are Higo school decorated with sporadic droplets of silver. the tsukaiti od lacquered leather over a single menuki of pure gold onlaid shakudo flower stems, on early samegawa giant rayskin. The iron mokko gata tsuba is signed and decorated with mountain and river scene with a villlage in the forground.

The original urushi lacquer saya is in a bright and matt in contrasting design, with two inserted rectangular panels of black decorated with gold lacquer maki-e of buddhist bonji, and it is mounted with iron fittings, with a buffalo horn kurigata.

The Edo period original lacquer work saya has some small natural age edge marks and losses

Code: 26366