May 8-10, 2024 Firearms & Militaria
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/10/2024
29.7 nagasa of hirazukuri form with iori mune and kuri nakagojiri. Jihada is a flowing mokume with burls, turning more towards masame to mune. Gunome hamon, some areas closer to hako, particularly near the hamachi. Jihada with chikei and areas of sunagashi in hamon. Ko maru boshi with a long kaeri. Single mekugi-ana, partly infilled with copper, and signed "Kaneiwa Saku". Yasurime looks like higaki, but is soft. Gold foil catscratch habaki. Koshirae is a finely textured saya with a sayajiri in the form of a sheaf of wheat and a plum tree, shakudo kurikata in the form of a clam, and kozuka depicting an eel in the water with a brass blade; kozuka signed Iwamoto Konkan. Brass tsuba carved with daruma in his cave accented in gold and silver, fuchi with a carp in copper, with gold highlights, menuki in the form of fish, and kashira with a lobster with gold highlights. With NBTHK Hozon papers for both the blade and the mounts. CONDITION: Very good, in good polish with features visible, with some scattered handling marks and ware. Mounts are very good with some minor handling marks, but present very well. A lovely example, already papered. PROVENANCE: Christies, March, 2006.
Paperwork
NBTHK Hozon Papers