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Wakizashi

The Wakizashi is a traditional Japanese short sword carried by samurai during the Edo period. Typically worn alongside the Katana, it was used for close combat and ceremonial purposes, symbolising honour and status. The sword was designed for quick handling and typically measured between 12 and 24 inches in length. Often crafted by master swordsmiths such as Masamune, the Wakizashi is admired today for its precision, craftsmanship and cultural significance.

AN ECHIZEN YASUTSUGU WAKIZASHI

An Echizen Wakizashi in Gold-Lacquered Leather Mounts

EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY), SIGNED ECHIZEN (NO) SUKEHIRO

A BIZEN KANEMITSU WAKIZASHI WITH KOSHIRAE BY ISHIGURO MASAYOSHI

MEI: BISHU OSAFUNE KANEMITSU AND DATED ENBUN GAN.. (1356) GATSUBI , THE MOUNTS, 19TH CENTURY

A HOCHO STYLE WAKIZASHI

SIGNED HONO KOYAMA SOBEI MUNETSUGU KORE (WO) TSUKURU TORYUSAI KIYOTOSHI KORE (WO) HORU SOSHU EGARA TENMANGU SHOZO MASAMUNE SAKU HOCHO NARI IMA (NO) TSUKAI YAKO (WA) KONO SHIN UTSUSHI (WO) TOTO SHIBAGAMI MYOGU SHIKAN KOIZUMI SHI IHOSAI TENMANGU SHINJI (NI) OITE KEINO (SU) TEMPO JUROKUNEN INU NEZUMI NIGATSU KICHIJITSU KUWAUE HORI MONJIN AKITSUKI NOMURA TOSHIKATSU KEINO BY KOYAMA MUNETSUGU, HORIMONO BY TORYUSAI KIYOTOSHI, EDO PERIOD (1840)

An Echizen School Wakizashi

SIGNED AND INSCRIBED MOTTE NAMBAN TETSU BUSHU EDO NI OITE ECHIZEN YASUTSUGU, HONDA HIDA NO KAMI SHOJI, ICHI NO DO MITABI OTOSU RAISEI KEN KORE NARI AND WITH HOLLYHOCK CREST, EARLY EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY)

A MOUNTED HORIKAWA DAISHO

EDO PERIOD (EARLY 17TH CENTURY), KATANA SIGNED RAKUYO HORIKAWA [ NO ] JU FUJIWARA KUNIMORI , WAKIZASHI SIGNED FUJIWARA KUNIMORI

A SOSHU WAKIZASHI

A Hizen Daisho

EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY), THE KATANA SIGNED HIZEN KUNI JU OMI DAIJO FUJIWARA TADAHIRO , THE WAKIZASHI SIGNED OMI DAIJO FUJIWARA TADAHIRO

A SUISHINSHI WAKIZASHI

SIGNED SUISHINSHI MASAHIDE WITH KAO ON THE OMOTE , AND ON THE URA SATAKE NO KENKO MASAHIDE AIZUCHI (WO) MOTTE KORE (WO) TSUKURU [MADE WITH MASAHIDE, SWORD-SMITH OF SATAKE, AS HAMMER-MAN] DATED BUNKA YONNEN HACHIGATSU HI [A DAY IN THE EIGHTH MONTH 1807]

A Kashu Wakizashi

SIGNED GASHU FUJISHIMA TOMOSHIGE AND DATED OEI JUROKUNEN NIGATSU YOKA (1409.2.8)

A Bushu Daisho

THE KATANA SIGNED SAKUYO BAKKA SHI HOSOKAWA MASAYOSHI AND SEALED YORI HAGINO SHIZUSATO KONOMI ZO AND DATED ANSEI 5 BO-GO NEN, 2-GATSU KICHI JITSU GYO NEN 70 YU 3-SAI (1858) THE WAKIZASHI SIGNED SAKUYO BAKKA SHI HOSOKAWA MASAYOSHI AND SEALED YORI HAGINO SHIZUSATO KONOMI ZO AND DATED ANSEI 5 BO-GO NEN CHUSHUN (1858), EDO PERIOD 19TH CENTURY

SHINTO WAKIZASHI REGISTERED AS A JUYO TOKEN [IMPORTANT SWORD]

SIGNED INOUE SHINKAI AND DATED 1675, EARLY EDO PERIOD

A MIXED METAL BLADE MOUNTED AS A WAKIZASHI BY KANO NATSUO, FUNADA IKKIN, TSUCHIYA YASUCHIKA VI AND YOKOYA TENMIN

A DAISHO , the katana blade honzukuri, iorimune, torii-zori with chugissaki , ko-itame hada, suguha-hamon with slight notare of ko-nie , o-maru boshi , a well carved atobori of Ushiwaka and Benkei on a bridge on the omote , the ura carved with a banner with mon , signed tachimei Hizen kuni Mutsu no kami Tadayoshi , 17th/18th century, 69.8cm.; the wakizashi blade honzukuri, iori-mune, torii-zori with chugissaki, itame-hada with wide gunome-midare hamon of nie with ashi, ko-maru boshi , signed Kawachi daijo Fujiwara Kunisada and dated Kambun 10 (1670), 45.8cm.; in gold lacquered saya decorated with red lacquered crayfish, shibuichi fuchi-kashira deeply carved with waves and gilt sea bream and yellowtail, the matching tsuba, kurikata and kozuka similarly chiselled with waves in the Omori manner and decorated in gilt takabori and shibuichi with various fish including yellowtail, sea breams and octopus, large shibuichi kojiri of fish, menuki of sea creatures in iroe takabori , fuchi-kashira signed Takase Eizui , and kao , the tsuba signed Egawa Toshiyasu and kao , the kozuka signed Omori Eishu , all mid-19th century, the tsuka bound with whale bone (2)

A well mounted Wakizashi

SIGNED BISHU OSAFUNE JU NIN YOKOYAMA KOZUKE DAIJO FUJIWARA SUKESADA , EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY)

An Osaka Shinto Wakizashi with Koshirae

EDO PERIOD, SIGNED TSUDA NO ECHIZEN KAMI SUKEHIRO AND DATED ENPO GANNEN JUNIGATSU BI (1673.12)

A Tachi Daisho

EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY), KATANA SIGNED KOZUKE [ NO ] KUNI HASEBE YOSHISHIGE AND DATED ANSEI YONNEN HACHIGATSU KICHIJUTSU (AN AUSPICIOUS DAY IN THE EIGHTH MONTH OF 1857), WAKIZASHI SIGNED SAYOSHI TAKAMURA MASAAKI AND DATED KA'EI ROKUNEN NIGATSU (A DAY IN THE SECOND MONTH OF 1852)

A Wakizashi Blade Ascribed to Soshu Fusamune

SIGNED FUSAMUNE , MUROMACHI PERIOD (LATE 15TH-EARLY 16TH CENTURY)

AN OSAKA INOUE WAKIZASHI

A KATANA and a Wakizashi KOSHIRAE

EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

An Osaka Wakizashi

SIGNED TSUTA ECHIZEN NO KAMI SUKEHIRO , AND DATED KANBUN KYUNEN HACHIGATSU BI (1669.8)

A Soden Bizen Wakizashi

UNSIGNED, ATTRIBUTED TO CHOGI, NAMBOKUCHO PERIOD (14TH CENTURY)

AN OSAKA INOUE WAKIZASHI

A SANPIN DAISHO [MATCHING PAIR OF SWORDS]

DAITO SIGNED IZU NO KAMI FUJIWARA KINMICHI WITH KIKU MON , WAKIZASHI SIGNED IGA NO KAMI FUJIWARA KINMICHI WITH KIKU MON , EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY); KOSHIRAE TAISHO PERIOD (20TH CENTURY)

A NAGASONE SCHOOL WAKIZASHI

A SO-DEN BIZEN WAKIZASHI

ATTRIBUTED TO KANENAGA , NANBOKUCHO PERIOD (14TH CENTURY)

An Osaka Wakizashi

EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY), SIGNED INOUE SHINKAI AND DATED ENPO SANNEN HACHIGATSU (NO) HI [A DAY IN THE EIGHTH MONTH OF THE THIRD YEAR OF THE ENPO ERA (1675)]

A Daisho (Pair of Swords) with Mounts

MUROMACHI PERIOD (16TH CENTURY), THE KATANA SIGNED SUKESADA , THE WAKIZASHI ATTRIBUTED TO OSAFUNE TSUNEIE

A Hizen Wakizashi

SIGNED OMI DAIJO FUJIWARA TADAYOSHI (IV) AND DATED KYOHO JUNEN NIGATSU KICHIJITSU (1725.2)

AN OSAKA GASSAN SCHOOL KO-WAKIZASHI AFTER YASUTSUGU

A SETTSU TSUDA WAKIZASHI

A SOSHU STYLE WAKIZASHI

NANBOKUCHO-MUROMACHI PERIOD (14TH-16TH CENTURY), WITH SIGNATURE OF HASEBE KUNISHIGE

A SHINSHINTO MUSASHI WAKIZASHI

An Awataguchi Wakizashi

EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY), SIGNED AWATAGUCHI OMI (NO) KAMI TADATSUNA AND INSCRIBED HORIMONO DOSAKU (CARVING BY SAME) AND DATED JOKYO SANNEN HACHIGATSU HI (1686.8)

A WAKIZASHI IN A KAWARI KIZAMI-ZAYA KOSHIRAE

MEI: RAI KUNITOSHI , 14TH CENTURY, MOUNTS 19TH CENTURY

A Bizen School Wakizashi

SIGNED BISHU OSAFUNE NORIMITSU DO SUKEMITSU AND KOJIMA NITE SAKU AND DATED BUN'AN NINEN HACHIGATSU BI (1445.8)

A Wakizashi

SIGNED FUJIWARA YOSHITSUGU SAKU , MUROMACHI PERIOD (16TH CENTURY)

A FINE WAKIZASHI

A Hizen Daisho With Mountings

THE KATANA , SIGNED ON THE TACHI-OMOTE, HIZEN KUNI JU MINAMOTO MUNETSUGU , ON THE URA OJU KEIO SANNEN [1867] TE-BO TOSHI AKI HACHIGATSU KICHI SHIN THE WAKIZASHI , SIGNED ON THE KATANA OMOTE, HIZEN KUNI YOSHIKANE , EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

A Kashu Daisho

THE KATANA SIGNED KASHU JU FUJIWARA KANENORI SAKU AND DATED ENPO 9-NEN NI-GATSU HI (1681), WITH CUTTING TEST INSCRIPTION IN GOLD INLAY; TENNA MIZUNOE INU NEN (1682) WAKIGE SAIDAN MATSUNAMI TOKIUEMON KORE TAMESU AND JOKYO KINOTO USHI NEN (1685) KASANE-DO DOTAN IRI OKAMOTO KATSUUEMON KORE TAMESU THE WAKIZASHI SIGNED KASHU KASAMAI JU KIYOMITSU AND DATED ENPO 9-NEN HACHI-GATSU HI (1681), WITH CUTTING TEST INSCRIPTION IN SILVER INLAY; ENPO 9-NEN INU NI-GATSU 9-HI TSUGI DO DOTANBARAI AJI JOJO KIRITE MATSUNAMI TOKIUEMON AND DO-GETSU 27-HI KARIKANE DOTANBARAI AJI JOJO KIRITE DONIN , EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY)