A TANTO, the blade takenokozori and kasane atsui, iorimune with fine mokume hada incorporating numerous chikei and midare hotsure hamon with ko-nie and sunagashi (shallow notches in edge, slight rust), uba nakago inscribed Sagami Kuni junin Akihiro Kazusa Kuni ni oite Mariya kore-o tsukuru, possibly 17th Century or later, 27cm. long; with lacquer saya (damaged) with dark shibuichi kojiri decorated with saltburner's huts by moonlight, signed with a kakihan; with a kozuka depicting a fisherman in a boat viewing the moon, the fuchi-kashira also with thatched huts, the menuki formed as wild boar, the shibuichi tsuba depicting autumn grasses, signed Hiroyoshi, with kao (pupil of Hironaga), 19th Century