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Lot 34

An Aikuchi
Signed Katsutoki saku, Koto

30 April 2014, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £1,625 inc. premium

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An Aikuchi
Signed Katsutoki saku, Koto

The hira-zukuri blade with two mekugi-ana, midare hamon, mokume hada, fully bound tsuka with shakudo fuchi-kashira decorated with a figure, spear and fan in soft-metals, and shakudo floral menuki, in its black lacquered saya decorated with a flowering branch in three colour gold lacquer beneath a silver lacquered full moon and applied with a silver saya-kanemono of a figure playing a flute, silver koi-guchi and shakudo kojiri decorated with a samurai in armour in soft-metals, the blade mounted in shira-saya, the koshirae with tsunagi
19.6 cm. blade

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Offered with NTHK Kaneteisho paper dated 1984

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