Kunimichi Lineage A Yamashiro Katana in Cloisonné-Enamel Tachi Mounts Edo period (1615-1868), 18th century Honzukuri, iorimune, chū-gissaki, toriizori

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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.