AN ECHIZEN SCHOOL WAKIZASHI

Lot 180
17.09.2024 00:00UTC +01:00
Classic
Prix de départ
$ 6 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Lieu de l'événementRoyaume-Uni, London
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ID 1301623
Lot 180 | AN ECHIZEN SCHOOL WAKIZASHI
Valeur estimée
$ 6 000 – 8 000
AN ECHIZEN SCHOOL WAKIZASHI
EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY)
Configuration [sugata]: hira-zukuri, mitsu-mune with shallow curvature
Forging pattern [kitae]: itame with some ji-nie
Tempering pattern [hamon]: chu-sugu-ha with nioi
Point [boshi]: kaeri-fukai
Tang [nakago]: funagata with kengyo-shape tip, unshortened (machi-okuri), tapering with two holes
Length from tip to beginning of tang [nagasa]: 31.7 cm.; curvature xx cm.; width at start of tempered edge 3 cm.; width before tip 1.6 cm.
Collar [habaki]: gilt bronze craved with flower and grass
Carving [horimono]: on the omote a kurikara, on the ura a sword and Sanskrit bhrum
In shirasaya (wood storage scabbard) with attestation by Sato Kan'ichi (1907-1978) for the sword
Mounting [koshirae]: Black lacquer ribbed aikuchi koshirae wakizashi scabbard, iron fuchi-kashira and sayajiri finely carved and inlaid in gold and shakudo with a crab on lotus leaf by river, signed Isso with cursive monogram (kao) and sealed Yazuki; iron, gold and shibuichi menuki of hazy moon and man on boat, tsuka in ray skin; iron kozuka inlaid in gold, shakudo and shibuichi with flying geese, signed Edo ju Omura Kaboku; 48.5 cm.

The mounting accompanied with Tokubetsu kicho shodogu certificate, issued by Nihon bijutsu token hozon kyokai, 23 January (no. 171); the sword had a Tokubetsu kicho token certificate, 26 February 1976 (no. 321290), now missing




Exhibited

On loan to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 31 December 1973
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