THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A WAKIZASHI, the blade honzukuri, iorimune, chugissaki and torii-zori with mokume hada and toran hamon with profuse ko-nie and yakidashi, komaru boshi and ubu nakago, signed Takai Echizen no kami Rai Nobuyoshi (of Settsu), circa 1673, 46.1 cm. long; in kuroronuri saya decorated in gilt and red with a dragon in thunderclouds, the blue-bound hilt with gilt karashishi menuki, shakudo nanakoji fuchi-kashira with gilt kurikara, the iron tsuba with a dragon in nikubori, and with a shiiremono uchidashi kozuka
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A WAKIZASHI, the blade honzukuri, iorimune, chugissaki and torii-zori with mokume hada and toran hamon with profuse ko-nie and yakidashi, komaru boshi and ubu nakago, signed Takai Echizen no kami Rai Nobuyoshi (of Settsu), circa 1673, 46.1 cm. long; in kuroronuri saya decorated in gilt and red with a dragon in thunderclouds, the blue-bound hilt with gilt karashishi menuki, shakudo nanakoji fuchi-kashira with gilt kurikara, the iron tsuba with a dragon in nikubori, and with a shiiremono uchidashi kozuka