A KATANA

Description:

Japan, 19th ct.
Length of the blade 71.2 cm, shinogi zukuri, suguha hamon, itame hada, rubbed, ubu, one mekugi-ana, mumei, copper habaki. Koshirae: handachi koshirae with fuchi-kashira, koiguchi, seme-gane und saya-jiri of shakudo with small clouds and curled up dragons in shakudo, copper and gold on ishime ground, tsuba of metal with engraved waves and petals, menuki: dragon of gilt copper, purple binding over same, a kind of obitori with brass mounts and sageo of printed leather, saya with roundels of stylised clouds on nashiji, the upper part of black lacquer with woodgrain pattern in chinkin-bori.
Ehemals aus einer deutschen Privatsammlung, erworben vor 2007