拍品描述:Configuration [sugata]: hira-zukuri with iori-mune；fukura-kareru， no curvature Forging pattern [jihada]: itame Tempering pattern [hamon]: hoso-suguba Point [boshi]: rounded (ko-maru) Tang [nakago]: shape (keitai): slender and tapering， shortened (suriage)；file marks (yasurime): straight (kiriyasuri)；end (nakagojiri): straight (kiri)；holes (mekugi-ana): three length from tip to beginning of tang [nagasa]: 30 cm Carving [horimono]: bonji character Collar [habaki]: double gold Scabbard [koshirae]: a black lacquered aikuchi koshirae (set of mounts with flush fitting between scabbard and hilt) with gold menuki of three over lapping dakibotan (peony surrounded by leaves) crests， kurikata， kaerizuno (cord fittings)， shakudo kozuka (knife) and orange silk sword bag also designed with dakibotan crests， 41.5 cm long The outer wood storage box inscribed Tokugawa jusandai shogunke midaidokoro Tenshoin mamorigatana (Sword belongs Tensho-in， the wife of the thirteenth Tokugawa Shogun)， inner lacquer storage box decorated with dakibotan crests 来源 Tensho-in (Princess Atsuhime； 1836-1883) by repute Atsuhime， the eldest daughter of Shimazu Tadatake (1806-1854)， was born in 1836. She was adopted by Konoe Tadahiro (1808-1898)， the Minister of the Right in 1856， and that same year she married the thirteenth Tokugawa shogun， Iesada (1824-1858). Lacquer works that believed to be part of Tensho-in Atsuhime‘s wedding furniture set are in the collection of various museums. Including a sumptuous ceremonial palanquin made in 1856 on display at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington， DC， and a set of lacquer tea-bowl stand and lid at the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum (fig. 1). All of these lacquer works owned by Tensho-in Atsuhime feature the crest of dakibotan (peony surrounded by leaves)， which was the family crest of the Konoe Family.