Details
A katana
with bound shagreen hilt, bronze fuchi-kashira and menuki modelled as root vegetables, oval iron tsuba applied in bronze with a puppy beside prunus blossom, leather covered wood scabbard, the blade with choji hamon -- 26in. (66.8cm) long, signed Seki Zu Kanetane, impressed arsenal stamp, circa 1940.
with bound shagreen hilt, bronze fuchi-kashira and menuki modelled as root vegetables, oval iron tsuba applied in bronze with a puppy beside prunus blossom, leather covered wood scabbard, the blade with choji hamon -- 26in. (66.8cm) long, signed Seki Zu Kanetane, impressed arsenal stamp, circa 1940.