KUNIMICHI LINEAGE A Yamashiro Katana in Cloisonné-Enamel Tachi Mounts Edo period (1615-1868), 18th century Honzukuri, iorimune, chū-gissaki, toriizori, forged in itame hada with a chōji midare and gunome midare tempered edge ending in a midare komi bōshi, both sides with extended bōhi lacquered red, the ō-suriage tang with two holes and signed Dewa no Daijō Fujiwara Kunimichi, with a one-piece cloisonné-enamel habaki with scrolling vines and chrysanthemum blossoms; the late 19th-century cloisonné mounts worked in silver wire and coloured enamels against a midnight-blue round with stylized phoenixes in flight, phoenix roundels, and paulownia flowers and clouds, the tachi fittings decorated with chrysanthemum blossoms against a white ground enclosed by gilt-brass, the mokkō tsuba with confronted phoenixes in colored enamels and aventurine, with a gilt-brass rim Nagasa (length from tip of blade to beginning of the tang) 66cm (26in) long. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing