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A wakizashi
with silk bound shagreen hilt, gilt bronze menuki modelled as rats, gilt bronze nanako fuchi-kashira decorated in relief with running boar, similar kozuka decorated with a crayfish, lobed quatrefoil gilt bronze tsuba decorated with huts and pine, and a nashiji lacquer scabbard inset with scattered pieces of sea shell, the blade -- 15½in. (39.4cm) long.
with silk bound shagreen hilt, gilt bronze menuki modelled as rats, gilt bronze nanako fuchi-kashira decorated in relief with running boar, similar kozuka decorated with a crayfish, lobed quatrefoil gilt bronze tsuba decorated with huts and pine, and a nashiji lacquer scabbard inset with scattered pieces of sea shell, the blade -- 15½in. (39.4cm) long.