Episode 3 of Super Samurai Market (SSM) Sales Presentation (No. 2) for Token Matsumoto

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Greetings sword and fittings connoisseurs…

Please check out YouTube Episode 3 of Super Samurai Market (SSM), a venue for acquiring quality samurai art from Japan! This episode is a follow-up episode to the July sales presentation for Token Matsumoto. Mr. Matsumoto sponsors these presentations, so the prices quoted are the actual shop purchase prices and Super Samurai Market is not adding any fees to the in-shop prices as SSM is not handling export matters. However, feel free to contact Paul Kremers or Robert Hughes for help to coordinate the purchase of presented items.

This sponsored arrangement is in contrast to sales/exhibitions where there are multiple dealers and vendors and we have to purchase items on the client’s behalf and look after all export matters. For those presentations SSM adds service charges to make it worthwhile..... time is money.... or sometimes time is money... or sometimes it is just time spent!

https://www.youtube..../watch?v=fBROS4RTnEs

Items presented:

 

1. Katana : Mei Iwai Kanji Nobutsura, in mid-autumn 1862, 2nd year of Bunkyu Mizunoe-inu, the year of Dog

Certificate: Tokubetsu Hozon Token

Mountings: Shirasaya and Koshirae

Price yen 900,000

2. Wakizashi: Mei   Bushu Shitahara Hiroshige

Certificate: Hozon Token

Mountings: Shirasaya and Koshirae

Price: yen 350,000

3. Katana: Suifu ju Katsumura Norikatsu saku kore (Tokukatsu)

Certificate:Tokubetsu Hozon Token

Mountings: Shirasaya (no koshirae)

Price: yen 2,000,000.

 4. Tsuba

Mumei attributed to Kyo-Shoami

Motif: Jonagu Garden

NBTHK: Hozon Tosogu

Price: 200,000 yen

5. Tsuba

Mei: Ichiyosai Hironao（with Kao）

Motif: Li Bai, Chinese Poet

NBTHK: Tokubetsu Hozon Tosogu

Price: 300,000 yen

6. Tsuba

Mumei attributed to Kanshiro

Motif: Kasumizakura (Cherry Blossoms)

NBTHK: Tokubetsu Hozon Tosogu

Price: 500,000 yen