A Tanto in mounts
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A Tanto in mounts

EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY), WITH SIGNATURE YOSHIMITSU

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A Tanto in mounts
Edo period (19th century), with signature Yoshimitsu
Sugata [configuration]: hira-zukuri Kitae [forging pattern]: ko-itame mixed with masame Hamon [tempering pattern]: suguha of nioi Boshi [tip]: maru-boshi Nakago [tang]: machi-okuri with two holes Horimono [carving]: bonji above grooves to the omote; deity Kisshoten to the ura
Nagasa [length from tip to beginning of tang]: 10 13/16in. (27.5cm.)
Motohaba [width at start of tempered edge]: 1 1/8in. (2.8cm.)
Habaki [collar]: single, gilt-copper, late 19th century
Koshirae [set of mounts]: gold hirame ground saya decorated with Mito school silvered-metal fittings en suite decorated and pierced as a multitude of cherry blossoms, some in a stream, comprising a large kojiri, kurikata on large jiita, kozuka in takabori with signature Seiryoken Hagiya Katsuhira and kao, uragawara and fuchi, the baleen-bound tsuka fitted with a large kashira in the form of a phoenix, details of face, feathers and legs in gilt, a single menuki (2)
来源
Lundgren Collection, Sweden
出版
Japanese Sword-fittings and Metalwork in the Lundgren Collection (Tokyo: Otsuka Kogeisha, 1992), no. 343.

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Previously sold Christie's, London, 18 November 1997, lot 264