The Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armour

The Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armour

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 78. A tanto | Signed Bishu Osafune Munemitsu (Munemitsu of Osafune, Bizen Province) | Muromachi period, dated Daiei ni nen hachi gatsu hi (a day in the 8th month, 1522).

The Property of a European Collector

A tanto | Signed Bishu Osafune Munemitsu (Munemitsu of Osafune, Bizen Province) | Muromachi period, dated Daiei ni nen hachi gatsu hi (a day in the 8th month, 1522)

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May 10, 02:16 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 GBP

Lot Details

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The Property of a European Collector

A tanto

Signed Bishu Osafune Munemitsu (Munemitsu of Osafune, Bizen Province)

Muromachi period, dated Daiei ni nen hachi gatsu hi (a day in the 8th month, 1522)


Sugata [configuration]: hira zukuri

Kitae [forging pattern]: itame with mokume hada

Hamon [tempering pattern]: broad notare with deep choji nioi

Boshi [tip]: long kaeri

Nakago [tang]: ubu, one mekugi-ana

Habaki [collar]: silver, single clad

In shirasaya [plain wood scabbard]

Koshirae [mount]: the elaborate silver mounts with panels of stylised gnarled wood, the tsuka with fittings of quail

Nagasa [length from kissaki to machi]: 20.5 cm., 8 in.

machi]: 2.2 cm., ⅞ in.

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