11-14: Katana signed Sukemori, Shinto

  • $10,000 and Higher
  • Full Collection

  • Nagasa:

    69.1 cm. / 27.25 in.

  • Sori:

    1.5 cm. / .6 in.

  • Motomihaba:

    3.18 cm. / 1.25 in.

  • Motokasane:

    .76 cm. / .30 in.

  • Sakimihaba:

    2.06 cm. / .81 in.

  • Sakikasane:

    .56 cm. / .22 in.

  • Mekugi-ana:

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Simple but elegant older Meiji period fittings mount this tachi mei signed piece by Sukemori. Excellent older tsuba with silver inlay of rabbit with flowers. Saya is done in a shima (stripped) pattern with an iron kojiri. Blade is tori-zori, with suguha hammon, ko-itame tsume, miji shinoji-jihada, nioi-deki. Ko-kissaki with ko-maru.

Blade is signed: Bizen Kuni Osafune Ju Yokoyama Sukemori. Sukemori worked in the Bizen province in the Kansei period (1789-1800). He is the son of Uji Toshimori. (Hawleys: SUK 743)

Asking Price: $10,500

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