SUKESADA LINEAGE A Bizen Katana in Handachi Mounts Muromachi period (1336-1573), dated 1515 Honzukuri, iorimune, chū-gissaki, toriizori, forged in ko-itame hada with a flamboyant chōji and gunome midare tempered edge ending in a midare komi bōshi, both sides chiseled with bōhi, the machi okuri tang with two holes, katte sagari file marks, signed Bishū Osafune Sukesada, and dated Eishō jūninen rokugatsu no hi (A day in the sixth month of 1515), with a one-piece gilt-copper habaki; the 18th/19th-century handachi goshira-e mounted with en suite iron nanako fittings decorated with Chinese-style dragons chiseled in relief with gold highlights, the black-lacquer ishime saya with kojiri, kurikata, semegane, and koiguchi, the tsuka wrapped in blue silk and mounted with fuchi-gashira and iron and gilt menuki formed as a bamboo broom with a cicada alighting on the handle, the iron tsuchimeji mokkō tsuba chiseled and inlaid in gold numomezōgan with a dragon in clouds, illegibly signed []jirō Joshin(?) Nagasa (length from tip of blade to beginning of the tang) 59.5cm (23 1/2in) long. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing