{"id":18703,"date":"2021-07-09T11:30:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T16:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/09\/aquatic-masterpiece-japanese-swords\/"},"modified":"2021-07-09T11:30:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T16:30:02","slug":"aquatic-masterpiece-japanese-swords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/09\/aquatic-masterpiece-japanese-swords\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquatic Masterpiece Japanese Swords"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UZ4FAfmoJsI?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>This daisho set of katana and wakizashi swords is positively awash in its nautical theme. The wonderfully sculpted gold, copper, and silver elements portray the sakanazukushi (\u9b5a\u3065\u304f\u3057) or &#8220;sea life&#8221; theme in stunning detail depicting squid, shrimp, fish, and several octopi with wrapping tentacles.<\/p>\n<p>The blades are unsigned, but are identified as authentic, and thought to be the work of Omori Teruhide, a craftsman active in the Edo period (1730-1798). Other examples of Teruhide&#8217;s work currently resides at the metropolitan Museum of Art and other prominent institutions.<\/p>\n<p>These high art Japanese swords have been ranked as &#8220;especially precious&#8221; by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai (\u65e5\u672c\u7f8e\u8853\u5200\u5263\u4fdd\u5b58\u5354\u4f1a) or The Society for Preservation of Japanese Art Swords.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us!<br \/>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany<\/a><br \/>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RIauction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/RIauction<\/a><br \/>Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This daisho set of katana and wakizashi swords is positively awash in its nautical theme. The wonderfully sculpted gold, copper, and silver elements portray the sakanazukushi (\u9b5a\u3065\u304f\u3057) or &#8220;sea life&#8221; theme in stunning detail depicting squid, shrimp, fish, and several octopi with wrapping tentacles. The blades are unsigned, but are identified as authentic, and thought&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/09\/aquatic-masterpiece-japanese-swords\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aquatic Masterpiece Japanese Swords<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":18704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}