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KATANA with blade underlined by a long throat...

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KATANA with blade underlined by a long throat on each side, hamon with strong gunome, nakago with three mekugi-ana not signed; Koshirae with red lacquered scabbard speckled with black, tachi mount, habaki with silver leaf, iron tsuba openwork with a diamond and inlaid with gold nunomezogan, fuchi-kashira and scabbard elements in shibuichi incised with stylized clouds, fuchi signed, two shibuichi hanashi-menuki, featuring constellations. Japan, 18th-early 19th century (Traces of oxidation and kizu on the blade, dirt; small shocks on the scabbard, kurigata and koiguchi in black lacquer, tsuka with missing upper part of the braid) L. 64 cm