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Lot 38

An Aikuchi
Signed Gassan saku, Koto

26 November 2014, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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An Aikuchi
Signed Gassan saku, Koto

The hira-zukuri blade with one mekugi-ana, suguha hamon, ayasugi-hada, lacquered tsuka simulating ribbed binding, and silver kashira and koi-guchi engraved with foliage, and silver chrysanthemum menuki, in its black lacquered saya decorated with butterflies in gold, silver and red lacquer, the shakudo kurikata in the form of a butterfly with gold details, silver kojiri en suite with the tsuka, and complete with shibuichi kodzuka and umabari decorated with foliage in soft-metals, the blade mounted in shira-saya, the koshirae with tsunagi
20.9 cm. blade

Footnotes

Offered with NTHK Kaneteisho paper dated 1984

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