A TANTO in aikuchi mounts, the blade hira-zukuri, takenokozori, iorimune, slightly tsukare itame-mokume hada, midare hamon of nie with long muneyaki, nearly hitatsura, ubu nakago, Mino province, 16th century, 23cm., in a mijingai-nuri lacquer saya with flowers in silver hiramakie, the tsuka with matching silver kashira and dogane, the saya with similar koiguchi, kojiri, wari-kogai, kozuka with a ho-o bird, the kurikata on a large dogane, all chiselled in low relief with foliage, insects and birds, horn kaeritsuno