A Japanese Shinto tachi
Signature: Medium: Dimensions: 23½in. (59.69cm) Provenance: Received as a gift by Colonel Sean O'Driscoll, US Army, aide to General Douglas MacArthur in Japan in 1945. Gifted to the current owner by O'Driscoll's widow in 1992. Exhibited: Literature: A Japanese Shinto tachi in black lacquer saya, the heavy blade decorated with a horimono of a dragon to one side and a figure holding a tsurugi in a mountain landscape to the other. Signed and inscrib... bed with reference to cutting test. Obverse, Kato Tsunatoshi on orders of Fujiwara Teifuku - On a day of the second month Tenpo eight (1837). Reverse, On the 27th day of the tenth month of the same year at Senju Yamakado Yazaemon [cut through] a head and into the earthenmound below. Boshi to habaki Kato Tsunatoshi, real name Kato Hachiro, originally came from Dewa´s Yonezawa and was, like his father Kato. Kunihide, a student of Suishinshi Masahide, he moved to Edo during the Bunsei era (1818-1830) where he worked in the residence of the Uesugi family, the daimyo of Yonezawa. Around the first year of Ansei (1854) he left his go Chounsai to his son Koretoshi and changed his pseudonym to Chojusai, he died in 1863 more
A Japanese Shinto tachi
Signature: Medium: Dimensions: 23½in. (59.69cm) Provenance: Received as a gift by Colonel Sean O'Driscoll, US Army, aide to General Douglas MacArthur in Japan in 1945. Gifted to the current owner by O'Driscoll's widow in 1992. Exhibited: Literature: A Japanese Shinto tachi in black lacquer saya, the heavy blade decorated with a horimono of a dragon to one side and a figure holding a tsurugi in a mountain landscape to the other. Signed and inscrib... bed with reference to cutting test. Obverse, Kato Tsunatoshi on orders of Fujiwara Teifuku - On a day of the second month Tenpo eight (1837). Reverse, On the 27th day of the tenth month of the same year at Senju Yamakado Yazaemon [cut through] a head and into the earthenmound below. Boshi to habaki Kato Tsunatoshi, real name Kato Hachiro, originally came from Dewa´s Yonezawa and was, like his father Kato. Kunihide, a student of Suishinshi Masahide, he moved to Edo during the Bunsei era (1818-1830) where he worked in the residence of the Uesugi family, the daimyo of Yonezawa. Around the first year of Ansei (1854) he left his go Chounsai to his son Koretoshi and changed his pseudonym to Chojusai, he died in 1863 more
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