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ǂA LARGE JAPANESE CLOISONNÉ SWORD (TACHI), MEIJI PERIOD
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ǂA LARGE JAPANESE CLOISONNÉ SWORD (TACHI), MEIJI PERIOD elaborately decorated with multi-coloured kiku of various designs on both saya and tsuka. On the tsuka the design includes two large dragons. All metal mounts on both saya and tsuka, as well as the mokko-gata tsuba are in brass. The blade is shinogi-zukuri with tori-zori and chu-kissaki. The notare-midare hamon is in nioi and the boshi is o-maru. The hamon ends near the machi with yakidashi. The nakago has yoko-yasuri and kata-yamagata jiri, a single mekugi-ana and is mumei, probably shin-shinto. Nagasa: 68.0 cm; Moto-haba: 2.9 cm; Saki-haba: 2.0cm
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ǂA LARGE JAPANESE CLOISONNÉ SWORD (TACHI), MEIJI PERIOD elaborately decorated with multi-coloured kiku of various designs on both saya and tsuka. On the tsuka the design includes two large dragons. All metal mounts on both saya and tsuka, as well as the mokko-gata tsuba are in brass. The blade is shinogi-zukuri with tori-zori and chu-kissaki. The notare-midare hamon is in nioi and the boshi is o-maru. The hamon ends near the machi with yakidashi. The nakago has yoko-yasuri and kata-yamagata jiri, a single mekugi-ana and is mumei, probably shin-shinto. Nagasa: 68.0 cm; Moto-haba: 2.9 cm; Saki-haba: 2.0cm
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