Sale 5496
London, South Kensington
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12 May 2010
Price realised
GBP 1,875
Estimate
A SEKI WAKIZASHI SIGNED SEKI (NO) JU ICHI KANENOBU, EDO (17TH CENTURY) Sugata [configuration]: honzukuri, iori-mune, slight fumbari and sakizori curve, chu-gissaki Kitae [forging pattern]: tight ko-itame Hamon [tempering pattern]: gunome with togari-ba, of nioi with ko-nie Boshi [tip]: kaen Nakago [tang]: ubu, one mekugi-ana, taka-no-ha file marks, iriyama-gata jiri Habaki [collar]: double, the inner silver, the outer silver-clad Nagasa [length of blade]: 52.0cm. Koshirae [mounting]: in shirasaya
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Accompanied by a certificate of registration as a Kicho Token [valuable sword] no. 116374 issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai [Society for the Preservation of the Japan Art Sword] on 16th October 1966
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