Product Details
A SHINTO TANTO CIRCA 1700,
with unsigned blade carved with half-length fullers and clipped point (minor edge nicks, cleaned), shakudo tsuba with applied flowers and gilt decoration, fuchi kashira with flower design, in a black lacquered scabbard (kogai pocket badly damaged and other losses)
Provenance: This tanto was given to the vendor's Great Great Uncle, the Admiral Sir Edward Seymour by the Emperor of Japan in 1906 . The Admiral was part of a Mission led by Prince Arthur to present the Order of the Garter to the Emperor
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Estimate £450-550
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