Japanese SABER, Tanto - Japan - Edo period (1603-1868)

Japanese SABER, Tanto
Japan
Edo period (1603-1868)
Steel, wood, iron, lacquer, silk, brass, copper, shakudo, gold
Cutting edge length (Nagasa): 27.9 cm
Nakago: 9.2 cm

Shobu Tsukuri type blade, Mune Hikushi, Notare type tempering line.
Nakago of the Funa Gata (boat hull) type, Kuri Jiri or Hira Yamagata (round), signed and engraved with two grooves.
Copper habaki.
Wooden scabbard (saya), covered with lacquer.
Koigushi, Kojiri and Kurigata in buffalo horn.
Sageo in green silk.

Kogatana with copper Kotsuka depicting a rider on a bridge over a turbulent river where a man fights a dragon, all enhanced with gold.
Wooden tsuka, covered with shagreen.

Iron tsuba depicting a raptor with brass eyes overlooking a Japanese macaque taking a bath in the Onsen, a natural hot spring, enhanced with copper and brass.

This scene probably refers to the legend in which these birds were sent by the samurai to look for a piece of the sun, which once melted into the snow, would offer the monkeys a source of heat.
Menuki representing two dragons in brass.
Copper fuchi covered with shakudo, engraved with several leaves, probably maple.

Kashira made of buffalo horn.

Copper Seppa, signed.

Very good condition.

Ref.: 5388

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