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Lot 27

A Katana
Signed Hizen No Kuni Kawachi Daijo Fujiwara Masahiro, First Generation, Shinto

23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £6,562.50 inc. premium

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A Katana
Signed Hizen No Kuni Kawachi Daijo Fujiwara Masahiro, First Generation, Shinto

The blade with three mekugi-ana, suguha hamon of nie, itame hada, mounted in shirasaya, fully leather-bound tsuka with shakudo ishime fuchi-kashira decorated with yano-ne in gold and silver, soft-metal yano-ne menuki, and iron sukashi tsuba pierced with yano-ne, in its black ishime lacquered saya with shakudo kojiri decorated en suite with the tsuka, complete with tsunagi
63.8 cm. blade

Footnotes

Offered with NTHK kanteisho paper for the blade

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