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A Bizen tachi in mounts with additional bird's head tachi mounts By Yukimitsu, dated 1526 image 1
A Bizen tachi in mounts with additional bird's head tachi mounts By Yukimitsu, dated 1526 image 2
Lot 1158

A Bizen tachi in mounts with additional bird's head tachi mounts
By Yukimitsu, dated 1526

8 October 2013, 13:00 EDT
New York

Sold for US$3,500 inc. premium

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A Bizen tachi in mounts with additional bird's head tachi mounts

By Yukimitsu, dated 1526
Honzukuri, iorimune, chugissaki and slight koshizori configuration, forged in itamehaha, komidare tempered edge and an indistinct boshi, the omote carved with a dragon above a suken, the ura with gomabashi and bonji, ubu tang with two holes and sujikai file marks, signed Bisshu Osafune Yukimitsu and dated Taiei gonen nigatsu (no) hi (1526.2), 26 3/8in (67cm) long, two-piece, shakudo habaki carved with hollyhock crests

In a modern saya fitted with a shakudo nanako kozuka with a fisherman in iroetakazogan, the tsuka fitted with a shakudo nanako fuchi with a writing dragon in iroetakazogan and a lacquer kashira, shakudo and gold menuki of tigers and dragons, shakudo nanako mokko tsuba with dragons chasing jewels in gold and shakudo takazogan

The bird's head tachi mounts nashiji decorated with hollyhock crest in gold hiramakie, the hardware shinchu carved with scrolling vines and hollyhock crests, inscribed Captain B. H. Henry from General H. Dorey, the tsuka mounted with shakudo and gold menuki of European hounds

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