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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 14, 2016 | Bonhams | New York | Fine Japanese and Korean Works of Art | 251 | $****** - ****** | A Yoshindo wakizashi in rare blue-lacquer mounts, Blade by Yoshihara Yoshindo (b. 1943), kojiri by the studio of Kano Natsuo(1828-1898) |
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Sugata (configuration): hira-zukuri, iori-mune
Kitae (forging pattern): tightly packed ko-itame in jinie
Hamon (tempering pattern): notare mixed with gunome with ko-nie, ara-nie, sunagashi, yo, kinsuji and yaki-dashi
Boshi (tip): tsuki-age and notare-komi
Horimono (carving): bo-hi on both sides
Nakago (tang): ubu with one hole and sujikai file marks, katana-mei: Tsutomeru tsuyu shi motomeru Musashi no kuni no junin Yoshindo tsukuru kore (Made by Yoshindo of Musashi Province on a day in the rainy season) and dated Showa goju ninen hinotomi hachi gatsu kichijitsu (An auspicious day in the 8th month of 1977)
Habaki (collar): one-piece, gold
Nagasa (length from tip to beginning of tang)
In shirasaya (wood storage scabbard)
Late-19th century koshira-e comprising a ribbed glossy blue-lacquer saya fitted with a shibuichi migaki-ji kojiri decorated with scattered cherry blossoms on water reflecting the full moon in shakudo takazogan and gold hirazogan, bearing signature Natsuo; a russet-iron kurikata decorated with a rain dragon in gold and shakudo takazogan and kozuka-guchi and koiguchi carved as hiten playing instruments in silver takabori; the saya fitted with a shakudo ishime-ji kozuka decorated with geese in flight in iro-e takazogan, signed and dated Mizunotou moto Haruaki (early winter, 1843, Haruaki [Kono Haruaki (1787-1857)]) and inscribed on the base Hogen and with kao, the blade carved with Fudo Myo-o, inscribed Jo[mu]; a shakudo nanako-ji kogai with geese in flight in iro-e takazogan, the reverse with swallows in kebori, signed Funada Ikkin Yoshinaga and kao; the tsuka fitted with iron tsuchime-ji fuchi-gashira carved with a scholar on a mule and geese in flight carved in takabori and silver and gold takazogan, signed Shokasai Mitsuhiro and iro-e takazogan menuki of Chinese warriors with halberds and an Omori-school shibuichi ishime-ji tsuba decorated with geese in a winter landscape in takabori and iro-e takazogan, signed Nara Yoshishige and with a kao
