A WAKIZASHI IN A KAWARI KIZAMI-ZAYA KOSHIRAE

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

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A WAKIZASHI IN A KAWARI KIZAMI-ZAYA KOSHIRAE
Mei: Rai Kunitoshi, 14th Century, mounts 19th Century
The blade hirazukuri, mitsumune, muzori, forging pattern itame, tempered edge suguba of ko-nie, maru boshi, 10 13/16in. (27.5cm.); encased in a saya with alternating whale bone and stained wood laminations with a small coral inlay to kojiri, with shibuichi kurikata decorated with two oni wrestling in shakudo, copper and gilt, shibuichi and shakudo uragawara and koiguchi, shakudo nanako kozuka depicting a heron alighting in takabori and gilt, encased in gilt, signed Mon Renjo Mitsuaki and kao, the black wrapped tsuka with a large shibuichi and shakudo menuki of Namban jin and an elephant in takazogan and takabori, a crystal jewel inlaid above the elephant's head, details in gilt, signed Sekijoken Gensai and kao and a shibuichi fuchi-kashira depicting a Musashino scene of wolves in shibuichi takazogan and usunikubori, signed Tenkodo Hidekuni and an oval shibuichi Mito kinko tsuba depicting Namban jin in takabori iroe, with signature Tetsugendo Naoshige ju

Literature

Lundgren Collection, no. 341

Descriptif du lot

The artist of the fuchi-kashira, Hidekuni (1825-1891), was a student of Kawarabayashi Hideoki and became the second master after marrying Hideoki's daughter. His work is similar to his master Hideoki (see fuchi of lot no. 216) and was always elaborate and with grace, a characteristic of his school. He made the tanto kanagu of the Emperor Komei and in 1867, he made the Emperor Meiji's gunto mounts with Tokuoki, his brother-in-law (see lot no. 217).

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