A wakizashi, steel blade, pierced circular gilt bronze tsuba decorated with pine and foliage, gilt bronze fittings and shagreen hilt, with black and gold lacquered scabbard decorated with birds among foliage (fittings worn, kozuka missing, scabbard chipped) -- the blade 17½.in.long.

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A wakizashi, steel blade, pierced circular gilt bronze tsuba decorated with pine and foliage, gilt bronze fittings and shagreen hilt, with black and gold lacquered scabbard decorated with birds among foliage (fittings worn, kozuka missing, scabbard chipped) -- the blade 17½.in.long.
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