SABER called Wakizashi
Japan
Edo period (1603-1868)
Steel, wood, lacquer, copper, silver, shakudo, brass
Nagasa: 37.5; Nakago: 13.4 cm
Sori: 1.3 cm
(Missing parts, damage to the lacquer)

Kanmuri otoshi type blade, mune hikushi, chu suguha type hamon.
Nakago funa gata et ha hagari kuri jiri.
Habaki made of copper covered with shakudo.
Saya made of wood with successive torus moldings covered in black lacquer.
Openwork silver kojiri decorated with geometric patterns.
Kuri gata and koi guchi in silver.
Kogatana with signed blade, copper kotsuka decorated with a river and foliate motifs, all enhanced with shibuichi, shakudo and gold; the reverse is chiseled and covered with shakudo.
Brass wari bashi.
Tsuka ito in wood, with successive torus layers covered in black lacquer.
Silver fuchi.
Openwork silver kashira.
Silver mekugi, the second part is missing.
Tsuba ju ni mokko in copper covered with shakudo, representing a ten-lobed mokko.
Seppa in chiseled copper.

Ref.: 7606

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