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A Tanto SIGNED SOSHU JU HIEROMASA SAKU, SHINTO
26 November 2014, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,125 inc. premium
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A Tanto
SIGNED SOSHU JU HIEROMASA SAKU, SHINTO
The hira-zukuri blade with two mekugi-ana cut with a ken on the omote and a short hi on the ura, fully bound tsuka with iron fuchi-kashira with gold decoration, and small mokko-shaped iron tsuba decorated with a figure in a landscape, in its red and black speckled lacquer saya with iron kojiri decorated en suite with the tsuka, iron kurikata in the form of a grotesque mask, complete with a shukudo-nanako kodzuka decorated with Noh masks in soft-metals, and iron umabari with silver decoration
21.5 cm. blade
The hira-zukuri blade with two mekugi-ana cut with a ken on the omote and a short hi on the ura, fully bound tsuka with iron fuchi-kashira with gold decoration, and small mokko-shaped iron tsuba decorated with a figure in a landscape, in its red and black speckled lacquer saya with iron kojiri decorated en suite with the tsuka, iron kurikata in the form of a grotesque mask, complete with a shukudo-nanako kodzuka decorated with Noh masks in soft-metals, and iron umabari with silver decoration
21.5 cm. blade








