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ǂA LARGE JAPANESE CLOISONNÉ SWORD (TACHI), MEIJI PERIOD
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ǂA LARGE JAPANESE CLOISONNÉ SWORD (TACHI), MEIJI PERIOD the elaborate multi-coloured design covering the entire saya and tsuka, illustrates green dragons, with golden details and red mouths, amongst purple clouded skies, interspersed with Aoi-mon in various colours. All metal mounts, including the ashi, kabuto-gane and tsuba are in brass, as is the mokko-gata tsuba. The overall assembled length of the koshirae is 105 cm; The slender blade is shinogi-zukuri with ko-kissaki and a shallow tori-zori. There is muji-hada and the hamon is ko-midare in nioi, with many gunome-ashi. The indistinct boshi appears to be ko-maru. The ubu nakago has two mekugi-ana, suji-jikai yasuri and ha-agari kuri-jiri. It is mumei and is probably shinshinto. Nagasa: 64.5 cm; Moto-haba: 3.0 cm; Saki-haba: 2.0 cm
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ǂA LARGE JAPANESE CLOISONNÉ SWORD (TACHI), MEIJI PERIOD the elaborate multi-coloured design covering the entire saya and tsuka, illustrates green dragons, with golden details and red mouths, amongst purple clouded skies, interspersed with Aoi-mon in various colours. All metal mounts, including the ashi, kabuto-gane and tsuba are in brass, as is the mokko-gata tsuba. The overall assembled length of the koshirae is 105 cm; The slender blade is shinogi-zukuri with ko-kissaki and a shallow tori-zori. There is muji-hada and the hamon is ko-midare in nioi, with many gunome-ashi. The indistinct boshi appears to be ko-maru. The ubu nakago has two mekugi-ana, suji-jikai yasuri and ha-agari kuri-jiri. It is mumei and is probably shinshinto. Nagasa: 64.5 cm; Moto-haba: 3.0 cm; Saki-haba: 2.0 cm
Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria
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