A WELL MOUNTED WAKIZASHI, the blade honzukuri, iorimune, chugissaki, toriizori of 1.9cm., with a full length groove each side, ko-itame hada and wide gonome midare hamon of ko-nie with wide habuchi and many ashi, the boshi is komaru with hakikake on the omote and midare-hamon on the ura, ubu nakago signed Omi Daijo Fujiwara Tadahiro, 17th century, 54.3cm. long; with its ribbed red lacquered saya with gold kiku and tendrils, iron fuchi-kashira deeply undercut with the seven sages in iroe takabori, Goto mitokoremono of Tenyo, the menuki associated, the iron kurikata with gold nunomezogan, the Kenjo tsuba with a Namban ship in gold nunomezogan, signed Atsuie, 19th century

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A WELL MOUNTED WAKIZASHI, the blade honzukuri, iorimune, chugissaki, toriizori of 1.9cm., with a full length groove each side, ko-itame hada and wide gonome midare hamon of ko-nie with wide habuchi and many ashi, the boshi is komaru with hakikake on the omote and midare-hamon on the ura, ubu nakago signed Omi Daijo Fujiwara Tadahiro, 17th century, 54.3cm. long; with its ribbed red lacquered saya with gold kiku and tendrils, iron fuchi-kashira deeply undercut with the seven sages in iroe takabori, Goto mitokoremono of Tenyo, the menuki associated, the iron kurikata with gold nunomezogan, the Kenjo tsuba with a Namban ship in gold nunomezogan, signed Atsuie, 19th century

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The signature of this blade appears to be a dai-mei of Nidai Tadahiro by the third generation Tadayoshi (Mutsu no Kami)

See page 487 of Shinto Taikan by Iimura for a similar signature

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