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Lot 168

A Katana
Signed Bishu Osafune Kanemitsu, And Faintly Dated 1357

27 July 2006, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Katana
Signed Bishu Osafune Kanemitsu, And Faintly Dated 1357

The blade with two mekugi-ana carved with a gomabashi, su ken and bo-hi, gunome-midare hamon, mokume hada, in military pattern mounts with mokko-shaped iron tsuba chiselled with a landscape with gold details
69.8 cm. blade

Footnotes

Offered with a quantity of paperwork including details of the surrender of the sword in 1945 and correspondence with B.W. Robinson in 1948

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