Yamato no Kami Fujiwara Tadayuki Wakizashi - Tokubetsu Hozon & Koshirae - UK Sale

[FZ1]

For your consideration, a wakizashi by Yamato no Kami Fujiwara Tadayuki (Hôei era: 1704~1711)

(preferably a UK sale due to potential hassle with UK border force, but will sell outside the UK if the buyer is patient - it took a month to clear last time I exported a sword).

 

The blade has NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon papers and the koshirae, tsuba and fuchi-kashira all have NTHK-NPO Kanteisho papers. 

 

I bought it from Pablo (Unique Japan) and there is a video of it here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY25ggvrePE&t=2s 

 

Pablo does a great job of providing excellent photos and info for his swords, so all the info is in the catalogue extract, shared here:

https://1drv.ms/b/s!Au0p7phbocIZgekOWoXkWLXc8sfinQ?e=bwZCHP   (If that link doesn't work, email me and I'll send you the 10Mb file).

 

Alternately, its in Catalogue 36 on Pablo's site here:

https://new.uniquejapan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Unique-Japan-Sword-Catalogue-36.pdf 

Note: The catalogue is huge at about 125MB, so will take a while to download.  Search for ujwa251 in the catalogue.

 

It comes with a shirasya, the papers, sword bags and a printed catalogue extract booklet, as supplied by Pablo as part of the original sale.

 

I'm asking just £2,500 GBP, plus shipping or delivery at cost, for a quick sale.

 

Cheers,

 

Jon

 

[Lee997]

Beautiful example.

[FZ1]

I forgot to say that I'm open to offers on this.

 

Cheers,

 

Jon

[Rodenbacher]

PM sent

[vajo]

Pablos Videos are very enjoyable. 

A beautifull sword. And a awsome package.

[mwalt60]

Interested but outside of uk

[FZ1]

Thanks to members that have made offers.

 

I'll review and respond in the next few days.

 

Cheers,

 

Jon

[FZ1]

Any UK offers before I respond to existing non-UK ones?

 

Jon

 

[kissakai]

Hi Jon

Often on the NMB there are people who have bought swords and then ask if they are real. This shouldn't happen when you see offers like this one

How has this not been snapped up in the UK is beyond me

You think it has everything then there even more

I think I have enough swords but you can't believe how tempting this one is to me

 

 

[FZ1]

Thanks Grev - Feel free to PM me with an offer! 

 

I have offers from non-UK members, but (as per the original post) my experience of exporting is really stressful, hence preferring a UK sale if possible.  The last one I sent sat in UK customs for a month, with UPS being completely unhelpful about updating me.  Fortunately, the buyer was very patient and very understanding, but the horror stories about UK Border Force impounding stuff concern me.

 

To be fair to those members who have made an offer, I don't want to delay making a decision, but just giving UK-based collectors a final option!

 

Cheers,

 

Jon

 

[Alex A]

You should add images of the blade here, i for one only just noticed this sale.

 

[FZ1]

I'll be honest Alex, the only images I have are Pablo's, so I didn't feel comfortable about reproducing them all here, hence just putting one up and linking to his catalogue.  I have no clue with photography, and his are so much better than anything I could aspire to! 

[kissakai]

Alex

If you look at the video it will tell you a lot more

 

[Alex A]

Link ?

 

I use the dark version, found it now, thanks!

 

Was hard to see.

[FZ1]

There's a link to the video in my original post, a link to the catalogue and a link to a catalogue extract. 

[FZ1]

SOLD

 

 

Thanks to the buyer 

 

Jon

[kissakai]

I met up with Jon today and everything was as shown/described

This (in my opinion) was a brilliant buy that I so pleased with and a smooth transaction and a pleasant few hours with someone not to far away

 

Thanks Jon

 

[Brian]

Always good to hear, congrats both.
Grev, this is a seriously NICE sword!

[kissakai]

Thanks Brian

I'm still wearing a silly grin

Although not proven there is a good chance that all the koshirae are original to the sword especially when looking at the papers (four in total)

Don't possibly get more Ubu than that.

 

A very good day today as heard this morning that Robert Haynes wants to buy one of my tsuba

 

I'll also be bidding on a Japanese bronze later in the week

 

 

Grev

 

Edited December 12, 2022 by kissakai
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