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Property from the Collection of Izuka Kunio
Hosokawa Masayoshi (active circa 1830-1850)
A wakizashi in mountsEdo period (1615-1868), dated 1831Hirazukuri, mitsumune configuration with a toriizori curvature, forged in itame hada mixed with mokume hada and a gunome midare tempered edge with nie, inazuma, sunagashi, and tobiyaki, carved on the omote side with suken and on the ura side with naginata-hi, the ubu tang with kesho file marks, one hole, and signed Saku yo shi Minamoto Masayoshi tsukuru, inscribed []Goro nyudo Masamune [], dated Tenpo sannen mizuno-e tatsu hachigatsubi (A day in the eighth month of 1832), with a one-piece silvered-copper habakiThe koshirae comprising a saya wrapped in polished rayskin fitted with a shakudo migakiji kojiri with paulownia crests in gold takazogan and a shakudo nanakoji kozuka and kogai decorated with rain dragons in gold takazogan, the tsuka wrapped in black silk and fitted with shakudo fuchi-gashira decorated with dragons in waves in gold takazogan and takabori, and gold and shakudo menuki formed as dragons, the Nanban-style iron tsuba pierced with a phoenix and paulownia and decorated with gold nunomezogan