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Sold at Christie's, New York, September 15, 2003, lot 384
Walter A. Compton Collection, sold at Christie's, New York, Japanese Swords and Sword Fittings from the Collection of Walter A. Compton, part II, October 22, 1992, lot 207
Tokugawa Ienari (1787-1837, purported)
Matsudaira family (purported)
Iwakura Tomomi (1825-1883, purported)
The shirasaya bears an inscription claiming that in the early days of the Kamakura shogunate, in the second month of 1252, Prince Munetaka, son of the Emperor, went from Kyoto to Kamakura to inaugurate the government and was attended by Kiyohara Noritaka Sagami-no-Suke Mikawa-no-Kami, of the rank of Daiki Shōgo-i, to whom he gave this sword.
With an origami (photocopy only) bearing the seal of the eleventh Shogun Tokugawa Ienari stating that the blade had been given to the Matsudaira family, and an origami (photocopy only), dated Meiji 9 (1876) and signed by the Iwakura household, stating that the blade had been given (to Prince Iwakura Tomomi) by the Matsudaira.