A KATANA (DATED 1862), THE MOUNT | MEIJI PERIOD, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A KATANA (DATED 1862), THE MOUNT, MEIJI PERIOD, LATE 19^TH CENTURY

decorated in black hiramaki-e, takamaki-e in the form of a tree sprinkled in scattered nashiji, the elaborate mounts in silver, copper, gold shakudo, shibuichi and other alloys with monkeys, peach branches and foliage, the kozuka with similar design, the kashira with further monkeys, signed Tôto Hoshigaoka-atari oite Kiyotugu kore tsukuru (Made by Kiyotsugu of Hoshigaoka), the blade with signature Kurihara Kanetsugu Nobuhide, dated Bunkyu ni-nen nigatsu-hi (March 1862), with plum blossom and dragon horimono, gilded silver habaki

48 cm., 18⅞ in. long

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