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SABRE called Katana, signed Kunimasa
Japan
Edo period (1603-1868)
17th century
Steel, wood, silver, lacquer, silk, brass, copper, gold, iron
Nagasa : 71 cm
Nakago: 20.5 cm - Sori: 1.9 cm
(Old damage)
Kata Shinogi blade, Mune Hikushi, Sanbon Suji temper line.
Nakago type Funa Gata and Kata Yamagata, signed "Kunimasa".
Copper Habaki.
Wooden Saya, covered with dark-red lacquer engraved with stylized clouds.
Buffalo horn Kuri gata and Koi guchi.
Iron Kojiri decorated with a dragonfly applied in brass-covered copper, echoing strength, courage and victory.
Wooden Tsuka, covered in stingray, braided with brown silk.
Menuki representing two Jyu-Monji yari, with a kabuto and a hossu, all covered with shakudo and enhanced with gold and silver.
Fuchi and Kachira in copper, each decorated with a brass-covered dragonfly.
Tsuba Naga Maru Gata in iron decorated with a shakudo and gold-covered dragonfly flying over a flower, Kotsuka-hitsu solid in shakudo.
Seppa in copper, brass and low-title silver.
Item no.: 5989
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