A FINELY MOUNTED WAKIZASHI, the blade hirazukuri with three-quarter length grooves, iorimune, and shallow torii-zori with mixed itame-mokume hada and gonome-midare hamon with profuse nie clusters and sunagashi, ubu nakago with two mekugi-ana, signed Kanefusa (of Seki in Mino province), probably Kanefusa III, mid 16th century, 34.4 cm. long, in shirasaya with descriptive sayagaki signed Fukunaga Suiken; the koshirae, with banded lacquer scabbard decorated with chrysanthemums in gold hiramakie, shakudo-nanakoji soritsuno, uragawara and kuchigane, with a shakudo-nanakoji kogai decorated with a peony spray, and a gilt-framed kozuka with chrysanthemums on a bamboo fence, the menuki formed as peonies, the fuchi-kashira with chrysanthemums near a mountain stream, the tsuba with chrysanthemums and other autumn plants, fitted with a wood blade (tsunagi)