A WOOD KATANA ZUTSU [SWORD CASE]

EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY)

细节
A WOOD KATANA ZUTSU [SWORD CASE]
Edo Period (17th Century)
Decorated in black lacquer, with a gold hiramakie inscription Kunitomo on the cover and Gobankaiji on the case, and Gobankaiji Kunitomo and Yamashiro no Kuni Awataguchi Kunitomo inscriptions on paper, the bottom in copper with umebashi mon and scrolling foliage in kebori, some old damage
44¾in. (113.5cm.) long

拍品专文

Evidently this sword case was attributed to Awataguchi Kunitomo, (1146-1214), one of the Emperor Co-Toba's swordsmiths (Gobankaji)