A KATANA, the blade honzukuri, iori mune, torii-zori with chugissaki, itame hada, wide o-midare hamon of nie with ashi and ji-nie, ko-maru boshi, ubu nakago with a kiku mon, signed Inoue Shinkai, dated Kanbun 13 (1673), 69.5cm.; in a same nuri saya, silver nanako fuchi-kashira decorated with dragons in gilt takabori amidst clouds, signed Sano Masayoshi and kao, early 19th century, the shakudo migaki-ji tsuba with a gold cat-scratched rim forming the kuginuki design of an eight- pointed star, unsigned, gilt ho-o menuki

细节

A KATANA, the blade honzukuri, iori mune, torii-zori with chugissaki, itame hada, wide o-midare hamon of nie with ashi and ji-nie, ko-maru boshi, ubu nakago with a kiku mon, signed Inoue Shinkai, dated Kanbun 13 (1673), 69.5cm.; in a same nuri saya, silver nanako fuchi-kashira decorated with dragons in gilt takabori amidst clouds, signed Sano Masayoshi and kao, early 19th century, the shakudo migaki-ji tsuba with a gold cat-scratched rim forming the kuginuki design of an eight- pointed star, unsigned, gilt ho-o menuki

拍品专文

Sano Masayoshi worked in the late Edo period c.1840, the tsuba is possibly later Akita Shonai school

This katana is part of a daisho, the matching wakizashi is in the Victoria & Albert Museum on exhibition