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dating: 14th Century provenance: Japan, Shinogi zukuri, iori-mune, o-suriage blade (nagasa 73,2 cm). Mumei. Nakago with three mekugi-ana. Yasuri: o-sujikai (originally not present). Horimono: bo-hi with kaki-nagashi (a small grove at the omote side). O-kissaki, sansaku boshi. Kitae: ko mokume hada and hadadachi gokoro featuring utsuri, jifu, yubashiri and tobiyaki. Hamon: gunome choji midare with ashi and shimaba; nie and nioi. Koshirae (XIX Century): Copper habaki, pierced, iron tsuba, wooden ebu of elliptical section with rope covering at the top, black, varnished, copper sawaka, iron ishizuki featuring remains of black paint. Wooden saya, with brown, course varnish. length totale 215 cm.

Japanese Katana the tang with signature, 84cm blade, white rayskin handle with gilt bronze Kashira, Menuki, Tsuba, all cast with flowerheadsProvenance; this lot is being sold on behalf of the Royal Star and Garter Homes a charity providing the very best nursing and dementia care to veterans and their partners. The Charity was founded in 1916 and moved out of its Richmond-upon-Thames Home in 2014. These items were originally in the Richmond Home..

A Good Japanese Katana with Leather Covered Scabbard, Braided Shagreen Handle and Single Edged Blade. Signed Tang and with Bronze Tsuba. 67cms Long

A Japanese bronze tsuba, Meiji period (1868-1912)Of circular form with three central apertures, cast in relief with floral depictions, detailed in gilt high lights depicting grasshoppers and further insects, unsinged, 7cm diameter. CONDITION REPORT: Image shown is for Lot 192

A single Japanese bronze tsuba, Meiji period (1868-1912) The circular sword hilt, engraved and cast in relief with fire scrolls and gilt high lights of dragon before ruyi clouds, unsigned, 7cm diameter. CONDITION REPORT: Image shown is for Lot 191

Katana style Japanese sword, slightly curved, single edged polished blade 71cm, tape bound ray-skin grip, one menuki, old iron tsuba in its WW2, leather sheath, traces of signature on the tang Condition: The grip and shagreen has split under the braid wrapping, wear to the scabbard and repair, please see extra images, please telephone if you require further information - **General condition consistent with age

A JAPANESE WAKAZASHI, with 15 3/4" curved blade, highly undulating hamon, unsigned tang, iron tsuba pierced with flower head design, bound wood grip, simple round menuki and lacquered wood saya, 26 1/2" long (Est. plus 21% premium inc. VAT)

A JAPANESE TANTO, with 11 3/4" curved blade, a clear undulating hamon, unsigned tang, iron tsuba deeply etched with a flower head, wrapped shagreen grip, menuki in the form of a man playing an instrument and lacquered saya with floral scroll design, 19 1/2" long (Est. plus 21% premium inc. VAT)

A JAPANESE TSUBA of rounded oblong form, pierced with Japanese motif and inlaid with white metal flower heads, 3 1/8" x 3" (Est. plus 21% premium inc. VAT)

A JAPANESE WAKAZASHI, with 18 1/2" curved heavy blade, undulating hamon, unsigned tang, iron tsuba with lobed margin design, wrapped shagreen grip, menuki of a man playing a drum and lacquered saya, 35" long (Est. plus 21% premium inc. VAT)

A JAPANESE WAKAZASHI, with 19 3/4" curved blade, undulating hamon, unsigned tang, iron tsuba inlaid with white metal fruit, wrapped shagreen grip, floral menuki and lacquered wood saya, 29" long (Est. plus 21% premium inc. VAT)

Japanese Wakizashi short sword, 48cm curved blade, with engraved devices, iron tsuba with gilt decoration, tape bound fishskin grip; with a pair of menuki, leather covered saya.Footnote: with a Royal Air Force docket, Souvenirs - Certificate of Retention for 'one Samuri sword', dated 1946.

A 19th century Japanese katana, shagreen tsuka a/f, lacquered wooden saya with remnants of sakura design, floral fuchi, brass and iron tsuba, tang indistinctly signed, blade with rust, blade length 76cm including tang.

A Pre-War Japanese Samurai Sword. The sword with cord-wrapped white ray skin grip, gilt bronze tsuba, wood and red lacquer scabbard, approx 62 cms. (af)

Japanese Edo period bronze tsuba of circular form decorated in relief with tiger and dragon

Antique Japanese wakizashi sword with curved blade, iron tsuba and cloth bound fish-skin grip in leather scabbard, the blade 45cm CONDITION REPORT Tang unsigned, scabbard is split and held together with tape. Blade has some pitting and shows signs of been cleaned. Cloth on grip tatty

A Japanese sword, late 19th / early 20th century, with iron tsuba and bound shagreen handle, blade length 53cm, leather scabbard

Bronze Decorative Tsuba bearing signature

An antique early 20th century Japanese short sword / Wakizashi. Cloth bound grips with duck and reed motifs to the collar and end cap. Lacking tsuba, but all flanges and collar present. No scabbard. Measures approx; 64cm long. 

An antique believed 19th century Japanese Katana long sword. Missing tsuba, grips and handle. Bronze habaki, and within the original wooden sheath. Blade generally very good for age. Curved blade measures approx; 86cm long. 

A 20th century bronze Japanese tsuba bearing impressed character marks and embossed decorations of a dragon and ocean waves. Measures 8 cm diameter.

A pair of Japanese Samurai swords with faux shagreen bound handles and pierced and embossed tsuba, largest 74cm long, on wooden stand

A Japanese Katan sword, sheath, no tsuba or handle, 88cm overall, 69cm blade

A late 19th century Japanese tanto, the saya, tsuba and tsuka formed of carved bone depicting figures in various scenes, lacking kashira and kojiri, likely made for export, 30cm blade, 45cm overall.

A Japanese katana, 68.5cm hamon blade, gilt tsuba in relief with a samurai, aluminium tsuka with faux ito, black saya, 97.5cm long overall

A Japanese katana, 71.5cm curved blade, bronze tsuba with prunus to angles, ito bound shagreen tsuka, leather-clad saya, knotted sageo, 103cm long overall

Ethnic items and pewter to include Betel nut crackers, tsuba etc

Japanese Wakizaski Short Sword, single edge blade, shagreen grip with cord wrap, gilt decorated menuki, simple steel tsuba and brass blade collar, contained within a lacquered wooden scabbard. The blade approx 33 cms. There is a kozuka (handle) to the utility knife tucked into a pocket on the saya which appears to bear a signature (see image).

WW2 Japanese Naval Officer’s Kai-Gunto Sword26 3/4 inch, single edged blade with faint straight hammon. Silvered copper habaki. Darkened oval tsuba with overlaid segmented mounts . Gilt steel fuchi and kabuto-gane (some wear). Blackened leather grip with gilt steel floral menuki. Brown twisted cord binding. Contained in its wooden scabbard with brass hanging ring mount. Complete in its brown leather field covering. Complete with field repaired sword knot with red and blue tassel. Blade with various edge knocks and chips.

A JAPANESE KATANA, 64cm blade with one mekugi-ana, cross filed and signed Kanemichi saku, regulation fully bound tsuka, cast alloy military tsuba, contained in its simulated leather wrapped wooden saya.

A REBELLION KATANA, 69.5cm fullered blade etched with an inscription at the forte, mokko-shaped brass tsuba pierced with a bird, red leather fully bound tsuka, contained in its red leather wrapped wooden saya.

A REBELLION WAKIZASHI, 44cm fullered blade etched with an inscription at the forte, mokko-shaped brass tsuba pierced with a bird, red leather fully bound tsuka, contained in its brass mounted simulated same covered wooden saya.

A JAPANESE BONE MOUNTED KATANA, 51cm curved blade, white metal mokko-shaped tsuba decorated with a seated figure and a tiger in a jungle setting, the bone tsuka decorated with courtly figures in a landscape, contained in its bone sheathed wooden saya decorated to match. Some cracking to bone.

Military Style Katana Sword With Painted Scabbard & Handle And Dragon Detailing To The Tsuba.

A 19TH CENTURY BRONZE FIGURE OF A PARVATI, holding left hand up, on a stepped square base, height approximately 8.3cm, together with an iron and gilt tsuba of wavy outline, width approximately 7cm

An ersatz katana in buke-zukuri style koshirae, probably for Kenjutsu or other Martial Arts discipline; the blade honzukuri/koshi-zori style with black saya, black sageo cord, and mokko-gata tsuba. Nagasa about 70.7cm (roughly 2 Shaku/3 Sun/3.316392 Bu).

A Japanese Wakizashi in buke-zukuri koshirae with kuro-nuri saya, kabuto decorated menuki, unsigned shell decorated fuchi and unsigned sukashi tsuba with Amida yasurime; the blade configuration torii-zori/fukura-tsuku with shobu-hi groove on both ura and omote. Nakago with single mekugi-ana, higaki style yasurime, and three kanji inscription (Kanefusa tsukuru?) beneath mekugi-ana on omote. Nagasa about 41.5 cm (roughly 1 Shaku/3 Sun/6.9537 Bu)Please note that this lot has urumu, fatigue and deterioration including loss on the yakiba.

WWII era Japanese Samurai Sword / Katana,Signed blade, hammon visible, undecorated Tsuba, Bound Sting Ray skin handle, single suspension ring from leather wrapped scabbard, length 91cm

WWII era Japanese Samurai Sword / Katana, refinished blade, decorated bronze Tsuba and Fuchi, Bound Sting Ray skin handle, single suspension ring from leather wrapped scabbard, length 91cm

WWII era Japanese Samurai Sword / Katana,Unsigned blade, decorated bronze Tsuba and Fuchi, Bound Sting Ray skin handle, leather wrapped scabbard, length 91cm

WWII era Japanese Samurai Sword / Wakizashi, decorated steel Tsuba, Bound Sting Ray skin handle, lacquered scabbard, length 54cm

WWII era Japanese Samurai Sword / Wakizashi, decorated steel Tsuba, Bound Sting Ray skin handle, no scabbard, length 64cm

Japanese Sword Fittings, consisting of early Tsuba with fine gold leaf to the three seated figures; Fuchi with fine gilt relief in the form of floral and birds; plain brass Habaki and 2x Seppa.

WW2 Japanese Naval Officers Sword, untouched example with green cloth binding to the grip with flower pattern Menuki, Tsuba with pierced decoration. Gilt brass plain Fuchi. Plain copper Habaki. Housed in its black leather covered scabbard (Saya) with two hanging rings. Unsinged tang. Curved blade shows wear and has surface rusting. Blade measures 63 ½ cms, overall 91 cms.

Decorative Japanese Sword, with carved bone handle with scenes of Samurai’s etc. Brass Kashira with relief of a fish. Large brass Tsuba with floral decoration. Plain brass Habaki. Slightly curved blade with surface staining and small rust spots. Blade measures 71 cms, overall 99 ½ cms.

A Japanese Samurai sword, with curved blade, green metal scabbard with metal mounts, turned material hilt and pierced metal tsuba, unmarked, 110cm wide.

Japanese WW2 era Katana, with curved 69cm blade, bronze blossom decorated tsuba, leather bound wood scabbard. 99cm overall length

the enclosed tang bearing a maker's mark underneath the ito wrapped and shagreen hilt with gilt brass tsuba, the matching painted metal and bound scabbard held by an integral clip

A later 20th Century Japanese katana, with black cotton bound fish skin grip with bronze menuki, brass and gilt metal tsuba and kashira, the steel blade signed, length of blade 73.5cm, together with a black lacquered scabbard.

the blade shinogi-zukuri with wide mihaba and extended chu-kissaki, gunome-hamon with togari almost becoming sambon-tsugi, ko-maru boshi with some hakikake and ubu nakago with one mekugi-ana, sujikai yasurime, kata-yamagata jiri and signed Echizen Kuni Ju Kanenori on the omote; with black lacquered inro-saya, tsuba mumei of sentoku decorated with fans in shakudo and fuchi-kashira formed as crashing waves and silver spray in the Omori style

the blade shinogi-zukuri, shallow tori-zori and ko-kissaki, mokume-hada with some itame gokoro, ko-gunome hamon based on suguha in nioi with many gunome-ashi, slight midare-boshi with kaeri and suriage nakago with three mekugi-ana and remnants of signature Izumi (No) Kami); with red lacquer saya, black koi-guchi, kurikata and ko-jiri, round iron tsuba mumei of a multi-petalled kiku in sukashi, fuchi kashira of shakudo depicting gilt foliage and a setting sun respectively, and tsuka of black ito over white samé

The blade shinogi-zukuri, tori-zori, iori-mune and chu-kissaki, mokume hada with some tsukare, suguha hamon in ko-nie with sunagaeshi and nakago mumei with single mekugi-ana and kuri-jiri; with black lacquered saya, maru-bori tsuba with traces of gilt over a sukashi cloud design, iron fuchi-kashira depicting grass with gold inlay, copper menuki depicting a daikon and tsuka of black ito over white samé

the blade shinogi-zukuri, shallow tori-zori, iori-mune and chu-kissaki, itame-hada, notare-midare hamon with ashi, long yakidashi and nie in the habuchi, ko-maru boshi with short kaeri and slightly suriage nakago with two mekugi-ana and signed Ki (no) Kuni Sukemitsu on the omote; with black lacquered saya, iron mokko-gata tsuba mumei, fuchi kashira depicting mythical creatures in gilt on shakudo-nanako ground and tsuka of green ito over white samé

the blade shinogi-zukuri, shallow tori-zori, iori-mune and extended chu-kissaki, tight ko-mokume hada with some ji-nie, notare-midare hamon in nie, boshi with kaeri and suriage nakago with three mekugi-ana, kuri-jiri, o-suji-chigai yasurime and mei of two characters reading Ujinori; with black lacquered saya, plain iron mokko-gata tsuba mumei, menuki depicting Buddhist sage and koi and tsuka of ito over white samé

the blade shallow tori-zori and chu-kissaki, itame-gokoro hada, very narrow suguha hamon and with small kiri-komi on the mune and o-suriage nakago mumei with two mekugi-ana; with saya of light brown lacquer with black kojiri, soritsuna and koi-guchi, round iron sukashi tsuba depicting a bamboo grove and signed Masatsugu, shakudo fuchi-kashira depicting a wooded country scene with highlights in copper and gold, and tsuka of black ito over white samé

the blade shinogi-zukuri, shallow tori-zori and extended chu-kissaki, gunome-midare hamon (rubbed), and ubu nakago with a single mekugi-ana and kuri-jiri, signed Higo Dotanuki Munehiro on omote and dated Ansei Ni Nen Hachi Gatsu Hi (8th month of Ansei period, 1855) on ura; with red nashiji lacquered saya, all mounts in red copper including round tsuba mumei, decorated with shakudo chidori flying over a silver kiku and crashing waves, the fuchi decorated en suite

the blade shinogi-zukuri, koshi-zori, iori-mune and chu-kissaki, gunome-midare hamon in nie and nioi with gunome-ashi and some sunagaeshi, midare boshi with kaeri and ubu nakago mumei with a single mekugi-ana, kuri-jiri and some tate-wari; with iron saya, round iron tsuba depicting trees and horses on a nanako ground with some gilt highlights (rubbed) and menuki of karakusa design

the blade shinogi-zukuri, shallow tori-zori, iori-mune and chu-kissaki, itame-gokoro hada becoming masame in places, gunome-midare hamon becoming larger towards the kissaki, ko-maru suguha boshi with kaeri and suriage nakago with two mekugi-ana and signed Fujiwara Yukimitsu, in shira-saya; with black lacquered saya, round iron tsuba mumei, kozuka depicting a birdcatcher on a shakudo-nanako ground, tsuka of purple ito over white samé and wooden tsunagi

the blade shinogi-zukuri, tori-zori, and chu-kissaki, a small kiri-komi on the mune, mokume-hada, notare-midare hamon with ko-nie and nioi extending into the boshi, and o-suriage nakago mumei (possibly Bizen-den), late Koto period; with black lacquered saya enhanced with polished samé and silver strips, round iron tsuba mumei inlaid in gold and silver with dragons (rubbed), menuki formed as silver dragons and floral designs and black painted tsuka with samé

with black lacquer saya painted with gold flecks, tsuba, tsuka comprising flat panel of karakusa design with shakudo kabuto-gane, kashira and gold menuki formed as a coiled dragon, and wooden tsunagi