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Lot 320

A Satsuma Tanto
Signed Sashu ju Taira Masayoshi, Dated 1857

28 July 2010, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£2,500 - £3,500

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A Satsuma Tanto
Signed Sashu ju Taira Masayoshi, Dated 1857

The heavy blade with one mekugi-ana, ko-midare hamon of nie, nashiji hada, the fully bound tsuka with copper fuchi-kashira decorated with shakudo birds in flight over crashing waves, copper menuki in the form of deities, and yamagane tsuba decorated with a bird trap in a landscape in soft-metals, in its black ishime lacquered saya complete with copper kodzuka decorated with shakudo birds over waves
31.5 cm. blade

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