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MUROMACHI PERIOD (16TH CENTURY), SIGNED KIYOMITSU
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A Tanto in Mounts
Muromachi Period (16th century), signed Kiyomitsu
Hira-zukuri, iori-mune forged in an itame pattern with a broad suguha tempered edge with utsuri in nioi, the tip suguha with a long turnback, tang ubu with one hole and kiri file marks, copper habaki
11 5/8in. (29.6cm.) long
19th-century aikuchi koshirae comprising a black-lacquer saya decorated with human skull and bones rendered in a sprinkled design and togidashi and applied with a silver kojiri of a gravepost, the iron kurikata with skulls and bones in silver taka-zogan, iron gravepost kozuka carved with a skull and decorated with a gold-nunome Buddhist symbol, iron kogai with gold vines and pierced with an inome, blade ken configuration; tsuka fitted with iron fuchi-gashira with bones in weeds in gold taka-zogan and with gold and shakudo monkey menuki; iron oval tanto tsuba hammered to resemble stone with a graveyard scene in gold taka-zogan
11 7/8in. (40cm.) long
Muromachi Period (16th century), signed Kiyomitsu
Hira-zukuri, iori-mune forged in an itame pattern with a broad suguha tempered edge with utsuri in nioi, the tip suguha with a long turnback, tang ubu with one hole and kiri file marks, copper habaki
11 5/8in. (29.6cm.) long
19th-century aikuchi koshirae comprising a black-lacquer saya decorated with human skull and bones rendered in a sprinkled design and togidashi and applied with a silver kojiri of a gravepost, the iron kurikata with skulls and bones in silver taka-zogan, iron gravepost kozuka carved with a skull and decorated with a gold-nunome Buddhist symbol, iron kogai with gold vines and pierced with an inome, blade ken configuration; tsuka fitted with iron fuchi-gashira with bones in weeds in gold taka-zogan and with gold and shakudo monkey menuki; iron oval tanto tsuba hammered to resemble stone with a graveyard scene in gold taka-zogan
11 7/8in. (40cm.) long