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Property of various owners
After Suishinshi Masahide
A shinto katanaEdo period (1615-1868), dated 1806Sugata (configuration): honzukuri, iorimune, toriizori, chu-gissakiKitae (forging pattern): very fine ko-itame in jinieHamon (tempering pattern): choji-midare with nie and yaki-dashiBoshi (tip): ko-maruHorimono (carving): omote: tama ni ryu; ura: bonjiNakago (tang): ubu, iriyamagata, with one hole and kesho file marks, inscribed Suishishi Masahide and with a kao and dated Bunka sannen hachigatsu bi (A day in the eighth month of 1806)Habaki (collar): one-piece, copperNagasa (length from tip to beginning of tang): 26 1/8in (66.4cm)Motohaba (width at start of tempered edge): 1 1/4in (3.2cm)Sakihaba (width before tip): 7/8in (2.3cm)Koshira-e comprising a black-lacquer ishimeji saya with hollyhock crests in gold lacquer; a tsuka mounted with gold and shakudo menuki of flowering vines and gold and shakudo fuchi-gashira carved with scenes from Heike monogatari (The Tales of the Heike); iron sukashitsuba carved with a radish
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Provenance: previously sold Christie's, New York, 17 December, 1992, lot 114.