Lot 648
A JAPANESE EFU NO DATCHI PRESENTATION MARSHAL TYPE SWORD.
With an 80cm blade, the tang inscribed 'Sa Yukihide saku kore (made this) Kaei 6th year (1853). With a horimo of a prunus branch to one side and bamboo to the other, with hamon visible along much of the length,. Tsuka and saya covered in samegawa. With full length copper fukurin embellished with repousse scale decoration. Silvered fittings with gilt accents cast in heavy relief with cherry blossom and other botanical themes and crouching samurai. Leather obitori with nanatsu-gane.
Ref: Yukihide of Chikuzen and Tosa, Hawley YUK 33. Hawley's Japanese Swordsmiths. Koan Nagayama, The Connoisseurs Book of Japanese Swords page 282 and 184.
