Beschreibung:

A WAKIZASHI [SHORT SWORD] Signed Kunitoshi, Kamakura Period (Late 13th/Early 14th Century); the Mounts 19th Century The blade hirazukuri [with flat sides], mitsumune [tri-bevelled back], muzori [virtually no curve], itame-hada [wood-grain forging pattern], suguba [straight tempered edge] of ko-nie [fine hard bright areas of steel], maru-boshi [rounded turn-back to the tempering pattern in the point], 10 13/16in. (27.5cm.) long; encased in a saya [scabbard] with alternating whale bone and stained wood laminations with a small coral inlay to the kojiri [butt], slight old damage, with shibuichi kurikata [copper-silver alloy cord- fitting] decorated with two oni [demons] wrestling in shakudo [copper- gold alloy], copper and gilt, shibuichi and shakudo uragawara and koiguchi , shakudo nanako kozuka [knife-handle] depicting an egret alighting in takabori [high-relief carving] and gilt, encased in gilt, signed Mon Renjo Mitsuaki with a kao , the black wrapped tsuka [hilt] with a large shibuichi and shakudo menuki [fittings under the wrapping] of foreigners and an elephant in takazogan [high-relief inlay] and takabori , a crystal jewel inlaid above the elephant's head, details in gilt, signed Sekijoken Gensai with a kao and a shibuichi fuchi-kashira depicting wolves in shibuichi takazogan and usunikubori , signed Tenkodo Hidekuni and an oval shibuichi Mito- kinko tsuba depicting foreigners in takabori iroe , with signature Tetsugendo Naoshige