This is an unsigned Kyo-Kinko kozuka from the Edo period, featuring a crawling dragon design on a nanako ground. The dragon is made of shakudo, and the reverse side and ko-fuchi have gold inlay samidare yasuri (rain pattern file marks). While there are some minor damages to the nanako ground and reverse, it remains a rather luxurious piece, accompanied by an NBTHK Hozon Tosogu certificate.
Certificate reading — 無銘（京金工）
NihontoWatch
Kyo-kinko School
Edo
Unsigned
Hozon (NBTHK)
Kinko · Yamashiro
Certifies a genuine fitting worth preserving: a correct signature, or, if unsigned, an identifiable era and school, with recognized artistic and craft value.
The NBTHK (Nihon Bijutsu Tōken Hozon Kyōkai, the Society for the Preservation of Japanese Art Swords) is a public-interest incorporated foundation founded in 1948 and supervised by Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs (Bunkachō); it is based at the Japanese Sword Museum in Tokyo. Its expert panels physically examine each submitted work (shinsa) and issue a certificate (kanteishō) ranking it by artistic and historical merit. NBTHK papers are the most widely recognized standard of authentication for Japanese swords and fittings.
NBTHK official siteFor one-of-a-kind items such as swords, sword fittings, and antiques, please contact us about a return within 3 days of the item's arrival and ship it back within 8 days. Refunds are issued the same day the returned item arrives.
This is an unsigned Kyo-Kinko kozuka from the Edo period, featuring a crawling dragon design on a nanako ground. The dragon is made of shakudo, and the reverse side and ko-fuchi have gold inlay samidare yasuri (rain pattern file marks). While there are some minor damages to the nanako ground and reverse, it remains a rather luxurious piece, accompanied by an NBTHK Hozon Tosogu certificate.
Certificate reading — 無銘（京金工）
NihontoWatchKyo-kinko School
Edo
Unsigned
Hozon (NBTHK)
Kinko · Yamashiro
Certifies a genuine fitting worth preserving: a correct signature, or, if unsigned, an identifiable era and school, with recognized artistic and craft value.
The NBTHK (Nihon Bijutsu Tōken Hozon Kyōkai, the Society for the Preservation of Japanese Art Swords) is a public-interest incorporated foundation founded in 1948 and supervised by Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs (Bunkachō); it is based at the Japanese Sword Museum in Tokyo. Its expert panels physically examine each submitted work (shinsa) and issue a certificate (kanteishō) ranking it by artistic and historical merit. NBTHK papers are the most widely recognized standard of authentication for Japanese swords and fittings.
NBTHK official siteFor one-of-a-kind items such as swords, sword fittings, and antiques, please contact us about a return within 3 days of the item's arrival and ship it back within 8 days. Refunds are issued the same day the returned item arrives.
