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OTHER TOSOGU (SWORD FITTINGS) AND SWORDS
Various Properties
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AN ICHINOMIYA TSUBA (SWORD GUARD)
Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century
Of rounded rectangular form, bearing an ishime ground,
carved and inlaid with Shoki standing by a stream, while
an oni hides beneath a bridge on the reverse; signed
Minamoto Nagatsune saku.
6.7cm (2 5/8in).
£300 - 400
JPY45,000 - 61,000
US$410 - 550
Provenance:
Purchased at Sotheby’s, London, 1977.
Edward Wrangham Collection.
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THREE MENUKI (PAIRED HILT ORNAMENTS)
Edo period (1615-1868), 18th to 19th century
The first of gold and shakudo, each in the form of
two galloping horses; the second of gold and copper,
respectively in the form of a rat burrowing into and
emerging from a daikon; the third of shibuichi, each
formed as a component of a kutsuwa (horse bit);
each pair with a plain wood storage box. (9).
£500 - 600 50
JPY76,000 - 91,000
US$680 - 820
For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
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