A FINE WAKIZASHI BLADE, honzukuri, iorimune, extended chugissaki and shallow torii-zori with excellent ko-itame hada mixed with a little mokume and with many chikei, gonome hamon with ko-nie, some in sunagashi form, midare-komi boshi and ubu nakago with one mekugi-ana, unsigned, 19th Century, 43.7 cm. long, in shirasaya; with a gendai-koshirae incorporating Momoyama period fuchi-kashira and an iron Hishigata tsuba with hammered-up edges in Shoami style, 17th/18th Century