- A Japanese Aikuchi Tanto, 17th/18th
Century Shinto period blade with all matching early Edo period higo fittings, including a silver shakudo 'rope' tsuba, silver-inlaid iron 'kiri-mon' fuchi-kashira and kojiri,...
[more like this] - A Tanto
in aikuchi style with floral
designs for the fittings, blade is original tang, unsigned but bearing the hamon of gunome midare.
Length of blade 7 1/2 in., 9.2 cm.
Property from the Collection of Kevin...
[more like this] - A Tanto
a aikuchi tanto with silver
mounts, kozuka siged Isshu, scabbard is kin nashiji, blade signed Bizen no Kuni Yosozaemon Sukesada Saku/ Tensho (illegible) Ni Gatsu Kichi Hi, blade has a Omidare hamon.
Length...
[more like this] - A Tanto
mounted in aikuchi style, the
lacquer scabbard with a geometric pattern, blade is signed Munechika with a notare hamon visible.
Length of blade 7 1/8 in., 18.1 cm.
Property from the Collection of Kevin...
[more like this] - A Tanto
the black lacquered aikuchi
tanto mounted yari/ken, silver waribashi signed Sadamitsu with family crest.
Length of blade 6 5/16 in., 16 cm.
Property from the Collection of Kevin Evensen, Chicago, Illinois...
[more like this] - A Tanto
mounted in aikuchi style, Kammuri
Otoshi blade in old polish with a hamon of notare midare, mounts are simple aikuchi with a brocade covered scabbard, menuki in the form of a family crest.
Length of blade...
[more like this] - A Tanto
mounted in aikuchi fashion,
mounts made of silver, with lacquer work of aogai with black striping, blade unsigned, hamon is a low midare.
Length of blade 5 3/4 in., 14.6 cm.
Property from the Collection...
[more like this] - A Tanto
in aikuchi style, soft metal
mounts with leave and wave design, Ishiguro Masaharu Saku, blade signed Kanesada, with a hamon of gunome midare in an old polish.
Length of blade 7 7/8 in., 20 cm.
Property...
[more like this] - A Tanto
aikuchi lacquered mounts, blade
of hirazukuri form and a midare hamon is visible.
Length of blade 8 9/16 in., 21.75 cm.
Property from the Collection of Kevin Evensen, Chicago, Illinois...
[more like this] - A Tanto
with mounts done in Aikuchi
style, blade is of the hirazukuri type, original tang signed Munemitsu; hamon is a midare with activity in fair polish; mounts are ensuite made of soft metal. the lacquer...
[more like this] - A Tanto
BLADE SIGNED MUNENOBU
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aikuchi
mounted tanto done in black lacquer.
Length of blade 7 1/4 in., 18.4 cm....
[more like this] - A Tanto
MUMEI, MOROHA-ZUKURI
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aikuchi
mounted tanto with elaborate lacquer work of flowers, with silver fittings.
Length of blade 7 1/8 in., 18.1 cm....
[more like this] - A Japanese Shinshinto Tanto
Unsigned,
circa 1800s
the tanto in brass mounts in Aikuchi syle, the blade in an old polish.
Length of blade 19.9 cm....
[more like this] - Shigekuni
Dated 1870
the mounted tanto
in full polish, the Aikuchi style mounts with mother of pearl inlays.
Length of blade 18.1 cm....
[more like this] - A Japanese Tanto
Signed Skenobu
the
tanto in Aikuchi mounts with a design of birds and bamboo, the blade in an old polish.
Length of blade 16.5 cm....
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