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A Wakizashi
Signed And Dated Indistinctly, Nakago Reworked, Shinto

25 July 2012, 10:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Wakizashi
Signed And Dated Indistinctly, Nakago Reworked, Shinto

The blade with two mekugi-ana and cut with hi on each side, midare hamon with ashi and tobiyaki, fully bound tsuka with shibuichi fuchi-kashira decorated with dragonfly in gold with shakudo eyes, gold menuki in the form of cockerels, and circular iron tsuba decorated with grasses in gold, in its black lacquered saya decorated with dragonflies in gold and red laquer, the shibuichi kojiri decorated en suite with the tsuka (kodzuka and kogai missing)
42.3 cm. blade

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