Lot 659 Dα

Tanto. 16th century

Blade length: 20.7 cm, hira-zukuri, mu-sori, hada and hamon unrecognisable. Nakago: ubu ending in ha-agari-kurijiri with two mekugi-ana (one sealed with lead), signed: Munemitsu.

Koshirae: saya with lacquered fabric and mon with two paulownias in shakudo and gilt bronze, fuchi-kashira with gilt shishi on a shakudo-nanako ground, gilt bronze menuki of three mon with paulownia, black binding over same. 19th century. Tsuba missing.