SIGNED SEKI (NO) JU ICHI KANENOBU, EDO (17TH CENTURY)

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A SEKI WAKIZASHI
SIGNED SEKI (NO) JU ICHI KANENOBU, EDO (17TH CENTURY)
Sugata [configuration]: honzukuri, iori-mune, slight fumbari and sakizori curve, chu-gissaki
Kitae [forging pattern]: tight ko-itame
Hamon [tempering pattern]: gunome with togari-ba, of nioi with ko-nie
Boshi [tip]: kaen
Nakago [tang]: ubu, one mekugi-ana, taka-no-ha file marks, iriyama-gata jiri
Habaki [collar]: double, the inner silver, the outer silver-clad
Nagasa [length of blade]: 52.0cm.
Koshirae [mounting]: in shirasaya

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Lot Essay

Accompanied by a certificate of registration as a Kicho Token [valuable sword] no. 116374 issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai [Society for the Preservation of the Japan Art Sword] on 16th October 1966

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