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Lot 27

A Fine Wakizashi
Signed Bishu Osafune Sukesada, Koto

17 May 2017, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £12,500 inc. premium

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A Fine Wakizashi
Signed Bishu Osafune Sukesada, Koto

The blade cut with a short bohi on each side, suguha hamon of nie with sunagashi, fully bound tsuka with shibuichi fuchi-kashira decorated with a tiger and dragon with shakudo and gold details, and signed Jogetsudo Yoshinaga, shakudo and gold dragon menuki, shakudo-nanako tsuba with gold dragon amidst clouds and signed Goto Ryujo and Kakihan, finely black lacquered saya decorated with a tiger and bamboo and inlaid on the back edge with a strip of shibuichi inscribed with a poem and signed Hogen Tansen, the kurikata of shibuichi and gold in the form of a tiger, the shakudo nanako kodzuka and kogai decorated with shakudo and gold dragons
45.4 cm. blade

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