A TANTO, the blade hirazukuri, mitsumne, itame hada, ko-midare hamon of nie and nioi (overcleaned), ubu funa-gata nakago, unsigned, late Soshu-den, late 16th/early 17th century, 24.3cm., in a mottled red and black saya with a shibuichi kojiri, kikugata shakudo tsuba with sunken panels of nanako, Umetada school, 18th century, shakudo nanako kozuka with a spray of kiku, signed Goto Denjo, shakudo fuchi-kashira carved as a mass of kiku, the kurikata, soritsuno, uragawara and menuki similar