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Lot Essay
With a box, the interior with Tokugawa family triple-hollyhock mon, and dated in accordance with the 21st day of the 4th month in 1630, bearing an inscription stating that Tokugawa Ietada presented the sword to Shimazu Iehisa, the 18th daimyo of Satsuma Province, during a visit to the Sakurada Mansion of the Shimazu family.
Accompanied by an origami of Hon'ami Kojo, dated the ninth year of the Genroku era (1696); another document dated the fourteenth year of the Kyoho era (1729) signed by Nikaido Hachidaya, a retainer of the Shimazu household, repeating the statement on the box; a presentation slip stating "Sword made by Gotoba-In. It is a year's end present. Gift from the shogun to Shimazu"; and a letter dated the thirteenth year of the Meiji era (1880) to Matsudaira Yasutomi stating that the sword would be sent along as wished via the Emperor's servant, Kondo.
Matsudaira Yasutomi was given the rank of viscount in the Meiji era, but then felt that this title of the 4th rank was too low. He successfully petitioned the Emperor to raise him to the 2nd rank and purportedly presented this blade in appreciation; his daughter later married into the Imperial line.
Accompanied by an origami of Hon'ami Kojo, dated the ninth year of the Genroku era (1696); another document dated the fourteenth year of the Kyoho era (1729) signed by Nikaido Hachidaya, a retainer of the Shimazu household, repeating the statement on the box; a presentation slip stating "Sword made by Gotoba-In. It is a year's end present. Gift from the shogun to Shimazu"; and a letter dated the thirteenth year of the Meiji era (1880) to Matsudaira Yasutomi stating that the sword would be sent along as wished via the Emperor's servant, Kondo.
Matsudaira Yasutomi was given the rank of viscount in the Meiji era, but then felt that this title of the 4th rank was too low. He successfully petitioned the Emperor to raise him to the 2nd rank and purportedly presented this blade in appreciation; his daughter later married into the Imperial line.