A FINE KATANA, the blade honzukuri and shallow torii-zori, ihorimune and chugissaki with itame-masame hada, with many chikei, gonome-midare hamon of nioi, sunagashi, and inazuma, komaru boshi, so no kurikara horimono on omote, and Marishi-ten inscription on ura, ubu nakago with two mekugi-ana, unsigned, 19th Century, 26¼in.; with a fine brown ishimeji-nuri saya fitted with Higo style iron fittings with a silver nunome fret pattern, an umabari en suite, and an iron Higo tsuba, the shakudo menuki formed as farmer's knives