Product Details
A JAPANESE 'NAGINATA' POLE-ARM
late Edo period, circa 1860, with approximately 88in. shaft and 19 1/2in. curved blade, the shaft with carved crescent to butt with copper reinforcing band, painted longitudinal lines for the first 69in. of its length, simple swamped iron cross-guard held by red-painted rope bindings, the remainder covered in ribbed black laquer with three bronze reinforcing bands, the throat in brass with pierced heart-shaped motifs, the blade with long tang with unidentified signatures to both sides and short fuller infilled with red paint (blade stained with mild surface pitting, slight flaw at tip)
Estimate £500-700