MEI: OMI DAIJO FUJIWARA TADAHIRO, KIRIMONO FUJIWARA TADANAGA, 18TH CENTURY, THE MOUNTS LATE 19TH CENTURY
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A TANTO IN ROIRONURI LACQUER KOSHIRAE
Mei: Omi Daijo Fujiwara Tadahiro, kirimono Fujiwara Tadanaga, 18th Century, the mounts late 19th Century
The blade hirazukuri carved with gomabashi and ken with bonji, muzori, forging pattern nashiji, tempered edge suguba of nioi, maru-boshi, tang slight suriage, 11 15/16in. (30.3cm.); encased in a black roironuri saya decorated with a dragon in gold and iroe togidashi fitted with shibuichi migaki-ji kanamono en suite comprising a shaped kojiri, kurikata, uragawara, koiguchi, kozuka, kogai, fuchi-kashira and tsuba all carved in takabori with a dragon among waves, the fuchi and kozuka signed Kansai Takenori sen and Kansai Nara Takenori sen respectively, the kogai signed Meiji ni kishi, chu geshibi [a summer day in Meiji 2, 1869], Kaien shu, the oval tanto tsuba signed Kansai sen, the baleen tsuka over metal plate imitating same with a pair of gilt menuki of coiled dragon, slight wear
Mei: Omi Daijo Fujiwara Tadahiro, kirimono Fujiwara Tadanaga, 18th Century, the mounts late 19th Century
The blade hirazukuri carved with gomabashi and ken with bonji, muzori, forging pattern nashiji, tempered edge suguba of nioi, maru-boshi, tang slight suriage, 11 15/16in. (30.3cm.); encased in a black roironuri saya decorated with a dragon in gold and iroe togidashi fitted with shibuichi migaki-ji kanamono en suite comprising a shaped kojiri, kurikata, uragawara, koiguchi, kozuka, kogai, fuchi-kashira and tsuba all carved in takabori with a dragon among waves, the fuchi and kozuka signed Kansai Takenori sen and Kansai Nara Takenori sen respectively, the kogai signed Meiji ni kishi, chu geshibi [a summer day in Meiji 2, 1869], Kaien shu, the oval tanto tsuba signed Kansai sen, the baleen tsuka over metal plate imitating same with a pair of gilt menuki of coiled dragon, slight wear
Literature
Lundgren Collection, no. 342