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Listing for sale a beautiful ko-wakizashi by the smith Yamato (no) kami Kanekura. He was a shintô smith who worked in both Mino and Edo. It is very rare to encounter examples of his work. In fact when Homma-sensei visited Dr. Compton and viewed his collection, he said that he had never encountered a Kanekura in Japan and the only examples he had seen were the one Compton owned and another in the Boston MFA. I have since seen two additional Kanekura offered for sale. This is a katakiriba-zukuri blade with a Soshu style hamon in nie deki which reminds me of the work of Oya Kunisada. The jihada is a wonderful, flowing itame. The blade is ubu and signed 'Yamato (no) kami Fujiwara Kanekura'. It it in a partial koshirae, with a signed, Hotei-themed tsuba (mei is Motoshige + KAO).

 

Best regards,

Ray

 

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Thank you Axel! This one was in queue in to send to John Tirado for shirasaya, however I just bought a beautiful sword from a member of our group for my own collection, and as a consequence will need to let a couple of pieces I own go.

 

Best regards,

Ray

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Katakiriha for less than $1500 with that nice fuchi and tsuba??
C'mon folks....this is a no brainer. I know sales are way down at this time of year but seriously!
If this lasts a few days, I am going to make a plan and find a way to take it myself.

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Thank you again for the kind words.

 

Here are the dimensions for this piece.

Nagasa: 31.5cm

Moto-haba: 27mm

Kasane: 5.5mm

 

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