Sukesada Lineage A Bizen Katana in Handachi Mounts Muromachi period (1336-1573), dated 1515 Honzukuri, iorimune, chū-gissaki, toriizori

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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.