A KATANA WITH FINE FITTINGS, the blade honzukuri and shallow torii-zori, ihorimune and chugissaki with fine mokume hada, komidare suguba hamon, komaru boshi and machi-okuri nakago with two mekugi-ana, inscribed Tosa Shogen Tameyasu, possibly an attribution, 17th Century, 27½in.; with brown lacquer scabbard, decorated with birds and flower roundels in black lacquer, shakudo nanakoji fuchi-kashira in Hamano style, and a shakudo ishimeji tsuba decorated with clematis in gilt takazogan (hilt damaged and menuki missing)

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A KATANA WITH FINE FITTINGS, the blade honzukuri and shallow torii-zori, ihorimune and chugissaki with fine mokume hada, komidare suguba hamon, komaru boshi and machi-okuri nakago with two mekugi-ana, inscribed Tosa Shogen Tameyasu, possibly an attribution, 17th Century, 27½in.; with brown lacquer scabbard, decorated with birds and flower roundels in black lacquer, shakudo nanakoji fuchi-kashira in Hamano style, and a shakudo ishimeji tsuba decorated with clematis in gilt takazogan (hilt damaged and menuki missing)

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