A HANDSOME KATANA, the blade honzukuri, iorimune, chugassaki and shallow torii-zori with fine masame hada, midare hamon with many sunagashi, midare komi boshi and ubu nakago, inscribed Shoji Chikuzen Daijo Taikei Naotane, and dated mid-spring, Ansei yonen (1857), 66.8 cm. long; in kuroronuri saya (small dents) with silver kojiri, menuki of Fukurokuju with a crane and jewels, shakudo-nanakoji fuchi-kashira decorated with a fruiting gourdvine in gilt and shakudo takazogan, and a circular iron dotemimi Shoami tsuba depicting a bell-cricket near a climbing gourdvine