A JAPANESE MATCHLOCK GUN, the heavy octagonal sighted barrel with garlic-shaped muzzle, decorated in nunomezogan with a dragon and clouds, the breech with two bonji in nunomezogan and a takanoha-mon in brass hirazogan, inscribed Niju Makibari 'double winding style', signed Takada, brass lock-plate with iron pan and serpentine, the latter with encrusted silver decoration, brass pan-cover and pierced trigger, brass-mounted wooden full stock, and wooden ramrod, 19th Century