KANEFUSA LINEAGE A Mino Wakizashi in Attractive Mounts Muromachi period (1333-1573), 16th century Honzukuri, iorimune, chū-gissaki, toriizori forged in itame hada mixed with mokume hada and with a flamboyant gunome midare tempered edge with nie, nioi, tobiyaki, and sunagashi ending in a midare komi bōshi, the ō-suriage tang with two holes, later file marks and signed Kanefusa, with a one-piece gold-foil habaki with a stone finish; the 19th-century koshira-e mounted with shakudō and gold fittings decorated with the Seven Lucky Gods, the black-lacquer saya with a kurikata decorated with Jurōjin and fitted with a kozuka decorated with Fukurokujū and Benten in a riverboat, the tsuka wrapped in black silk and mounted with fuchi-gashira decorated with Hotei and boys with fans in iro-e takazōgan, the gold menuki formed as Daitoku, the oval shibuichi tsuba chiseled and inlaid in relief in gold, silver, and shakudō with Tamonten by a waterfall Nagasa (length from tip of blade to beginning of the tang) 37cm (14 1/2in) long. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing