Estimate : 3 000 - 5 000 €
Sold 3 500 €
Set comprising a katana and a wakizashi the blade katana with wide throat all along the mune, on both sides, o-kissaki, suguha hamon, nakago suriage with three mekugi-ana, very superficially engraved with an illegible cursive (?) signature. Length: 72.5 cm.
. wakizashi with unokubi-zukuri blade, engraved with a ken-shaped horimono and a very faded inscription, gunome hamon, nakago with two mekugi-ana, unsigned. Length: 36.7 cm.
Mounted in daisho for the tsuba and scabbards, the former in gold-lacquered iron, with openwork decoration of a phoenix, the latter in black lacquer with stylized paulownia decoration;
Fuchi-kashira of the wakizashi in shakudo nanako and gilding, with peony decoration, en suite with the two pairs of menuki ; fuchi-kashira of the katana in shakudo nanako and gilding with grape and vine decoration; the wakizashi with beautiful kozuka in shakudo partially gilded with takazogan horse decoration, signed Kikuoka Mitsuyuki, the oxidized blade engraved with a horimono.
(Traces of corrosion on blades and nakago, accidents to scabbards with missing ends)
Set including a katana and a wakizashi - JAPAN - 16th-19th century
Set including a katana and a wakizashi - JAPAN - 16th-19th century
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