A katana, with polished bronze and mixed metal tsuba decorated with geese in flight above tents in a river landscape, polished bronze fuchi decorated in takazogan with a coiled dragon on a rainstorm ground, the shagreen and copper hilt fitted with menuki modelled as a dragon and a mythical beast and mon, the polished bronze scabbard fitted with rectangular panels of shell inlay, gilt-metal kozuka decorated with a leaping carp, the steel blade signed (minor damages and old wear) -- the blade 23½in.long.