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A SILVER AND GOLD-DECORATED KUNITOMO GROUP OMINO MATCHLOCK PISTOL
PROBABLY EARLY EDO PERIOD, 17TH CENTURY, SIGNED INOUE KANSAEMON SAKU TOSHITSUGU WITH KAO
The .5 bore octagonal barrel terminating in a bulbous muzzle decorated with brass inlay along the ribs and with braided copper and brass wires at the neck; the peep line set with a fixed and a bar sight; the back of the barrel inlaid in gold and silver hira-zogan with a dokutsuki-ken flanked by two Chinese-style archaic dragons; behind the fixed sight are two archaic-style kanji reading seihen (to control emergencies) and a Tokugawa aoi-mon; the underside of the barrel signed Inoue Kansaemon saku Toshitsugu with kao; the one-piece wood stock fitted with plain brass furniture and the pegholes set with brass sakura--overall length 22in. (55.8cm.).
Accompanied by a hand-written N.B.T.H.K. origami, dated Showa 34 (1959).
PROBABLY EARLY EDO PERIOD, 17TH CENTURY, SIGNED INOUE KANSAEMON SAKU TOSHITSUGU WITH KAO
The .5 bore octagonal barrel terminating in a bulbous muzzle decorated with brass inlay along the ribs and with braided copper and brass wires at the neck; the peep line set with a fixed and a bar sight; the back of the barrel inlaid in gold and silver hira-zogan with a dokutsuki-ken flanked by two Chinese-style archaic dragons; behind the fixed sight are two archaic-style kanji reading seihen (to control emergencies) and a Tokugawa aoi-mon; the underside of the barrel signed Inoue Kansaemon saku Toshitsugu with kao; the one-piece wood stock fitted with plain brass furniture and the pegholes set with brass sakura--overall length 22in. (55.8cm.).
Accompanied by a hand-written N.B.T.H.K. origami, dated Showa 34 (1959).