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An Osaka shinto wakizashi
with silk bound shagreen hilt, oval iron sukashi tsuba with kiku flowers and foliage, signed Bushu Ju Masanaga, gilt bronze menuki modelled as bees in flight, patinated soft metal fuchi-kashira with butterflies in copper and gilt, and smooth brown lacquer scabbard, 20th Century, the blade with wild choji hamon -- 22¼in. (56.5cm) long, circa 1680.
with silk bound shagreen hilt, oval iron sukashi tsuba with kiku flowers and foliage, signed Bushu Ju Masanaga, gilt bronze menuki modelled as bees in flight, patinated soft metal fuchi-kashira with butterflies in copper and gilt, and smooth brown lacquer scabbard, 20th Century, the blade with wild choji hamon -- 22¼in. (56.5cm) long, circa 1680.