SABER called Wakizashi
Japan
Edo period (1603-1868)
Steel, wood, iron, lacquer, silk, gold, silver, copper, shakudo, sentoku
Nagasa: 42; Nakago: 12.4 cm
Sori: 1.5 cm

Shinogi Tsukuri type blade, Mune Hikushi, Notare type tempering line.
Nakago Funa Gata and Kiri or Kaku Ichi Monji.
Daitsuki-niju-habaki in copper.
Wooden saya, covered with textured glitter lacquer; copper inserts.
Iron Kojiri.
Koi guchi and Kuri gata in lacquered buffalo horn.
Shitodome made of steel covered with shakudo.
Wooden tsuka, covered with shagreen, braided with green silk.
Kogatana with Kotsuka covered with shakudo and sentoku, carved with fishermen enhanced with gold and silver.
Openwork Naga Maru Gata tsuba in copper covered with black pigments, decorated with the dragon Ryū with a golden tail, holding a golden jewel in its claws.
Menuki depicting two figures in copper, silver and gold and a golden teapot in front of copper flowers.
Copper fuchi covered with shakudo chiseled in bas-relief of three figures in a flowery landscape with a river, all enhanced with gold, silver and copper; signed.
Kashira in covered copper, subsequently engraved.
Copper Seppa.

Ref.: 5886

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