Simona Oprea
Head of Oriental Art, Traditional Art & Carpets Evaluation Office; Chinese Language Certificate HSK 4
66. Tanto-type shortsword, crafted and signed by Master Kanefusa, with a koshirae ornate mounting, Eiroku Era, Japan, 1588, NBTHK certificate
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66. Tanto-type shortsword, crafted and signed by Master Kanefusa, with a koshirae ornate mounting, Eiroku Era, Japan, 1588, NBTHK certificate
Starting price:
EUR 1.200
Sold
EUR 2.250
steel, varnished stingray skin, l=45.5 cm
The Koshirae is characteristic of the Edo Period (1603-1868), in the aikuchi style (without tsuba), and a black roiro saya. Tsuka is wrapped in stingray skin, covered in black urushi-type lacquer and has two shakudo menuki figurines added, illustrations of a dragon and a lion. The history of the Kanefusa Family masters from the Mino Province dates back to the Muromachi Period (ca. 1400). The blade was crafted before Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu gained power and established the Tokugawa Shogunate.
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