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HOSOKAWA MASAYOSHI (ACTIVE CIRCA 1830-1856) A Musashi Wakizashi with Mounts Edo period (1615-1868), dated 1851 image 1
HOSOKAWA MASAYOSHI (ACTIVE CIRCA 1830-1856) A Musashi Wakizashi with Mounts Edo period (1615-1868), dated 1851 image 2
HOSOKAWA MASAYOSHI (ACTIVE CIRCA 1830-1856) A Musashi Wakizashi with Mounts Edo period (1615-1868), dated 1851 image 3
HOSOKAWA MASAYOSHI (ACTIVE CIRCA 1830-1856) A Musashi Wakizashi with Mounts Edo period (1615-1868), dated 1851 image 4
HOSOKAWA MASAYOSHI (ACTIVE CIRCA 1830-1856) A Musashi Wakizashi with Mounts Edo period (1615-1868), dated 1851 image 5
HOSOKAWA MASAYOSHI (ACTIVE CIRCA 1830-1856) A Musashi Wakizashi with Mounts Edo period (1615-1868), dated 1851 image 6
HOSOKAWA MASAYOSHI (ACTIVE CIRCA 1830-1856) A Musashi Wakizashi with Mounts Edo period (1615-1868), dated 1851 image 7
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HOSOKAWA MASAYOSHI (ACTIVE CIRCA 1830-1856)
A Musashi Wakizashi with Mounts
Edo period (1615-1868), dated 1851

26 October 2022, 10:00 EDT
New York

US$15,000 - US$25,000

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HOSOKAWA MASAYOSHI (ACTIVE CIRCA 1830-1856)

A Musashi Wakizashi with Mounts
Edo period (1615-1868), dated 1851
Sugata (configuration): honzukuri, iorimune, chūgissaki, toriizori
Kitae (forging pattern): tightly packed ko-itame hada with some masame hada in jinie
Hamon (tempering pattern): gunome-chōji midare with ashi and
Bōshi (tip): midarekomi
Nakago (tang): ubu with sujikai file marks, one hole, signed Sakuyoshi Bakka-shi Hosokawa Masayoshi Kokuin and dated and inscribed Kaei yonen kanoto-i doshi chūshū ōju Tominaga Hanko kore o tsukuru (Made to order for Tominaga Hanko in mid-autumn 1851)
Habaki (collar): one-piece, silver-foil
Nagasa (length from tip to beginning of tang): 20 7/16in (51.8cm)
Motohaba (width at start of tempered edge): 1 1/16in (2.7cm)
Sakihaba (width before tip): 3/4in (1.9cm)
In a shirasaya (wood storage scabbard)
The nineteenth-century koshira-e comprising a black and mokume-nuri striped saya, ribbed on the section before the koiguchi, the tsuka wrapped in black silk over same and fitted with shibuichi migaki-ji fuchi-gashira with birds and rice bales in katakiribori, signed Buzen and with a kaō, the copper and gilt menuki formed as birds on a mortar and pestle, the shibuichi ishime-ji mokkō tsuba decorated with Shiba Onkō and his companions in iro-e hirazōgan and katakiribori, signed Hosono Masamori
With a Hozon Tōken (Sword Worthy of Preservation) certificate # 3012867 issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Tōken Hozon Kyōkai (Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Art Sword), dated July 21, 2016

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