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A WAKIZASHI
SIGNED MINAMOTO SUKEMUNE, MID 17TH CENTURY
The blade honzukuri, deep torii-zori, itame hada with extended chugissaki, midare hamon of nioi with some nie, hakikake boshi, ubu nakago signed Sunshu Shimada ju Harima Daijo Minamoto Sukemune, 51.9cm.; in its ribbed dark red lacquer saya, iron otafuku-mokkogata tsuba, dark shibuichi fuchi-kashira, kozuka, koiguchi, kojiri, kurikata and uragawara all carved with waves and inlaid with a South Sea Island coral diver in shakudo, gilt details, shakudo and copper menuki of a coral diver and coral, the tsuba and fuchi-kashira, signed Omori Terumitsu and kao, the uragawara signed Omori Terumitsu on a gold panel, the kozuka signed Shinohara kyuken no motome ni oite, Bunka sen hei-in (Hinoe-tora) chushu, Omori Terumitsu kyusho sen shi, dated Bunka 3rd year (1806), the tsuka bound with whalebone and lacquered dark green
