Japanese sword, SHINTO WAKIZASHI with KOSHIRAE
Japan, Edo period (1603-1868).
Steel, silver, wood, gold, lacquer
LT: 40cm - Cutting edge length (Nagasa): 30.2 cm
Nakago: 9.8 cm - Curvature, (Sori): 0.1 cm

HIRA TSUKURI, MOKUME HADA type blade, with SANBON SUJI type yakiba.
Nakago of the Funa Gata type (boat hull).
Silver higo-habaki.
Mount (koshirae) aikushi.
A wooden tsuka, covered with red leaves studded with gold on a black lacquer background. A screw-on mekugi, in chased silver in the shape of a plum blossom. A finely chased silver decoration, forming fushi and kashira, depicting plum blossoms with gold centers and branches.
Black lacquered wooden scabbard (saya) adorned with gold flowers and butterflies; a chased silver decoration, following the tsuka, forms a wood bark at the koiguchi and long foliage at the kojiri.
Kosuka in silver decorated with plum blossoms following the tsuka; kogatana in steel, with engraved decoration.

Rare item, in very good condition.

Ref.: 6234

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