A tanto, the ivory hilt deeply carved with bird hunters wrestling with crane and carrying their catch on long poles, the scabbard carved all over with beaters and falconers below pine (kozuka missing, age crack) -- the blade 7½in.long.

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A tanto, the ivory hilt deeply carved with bird hunters wrestling with crane and carrying their catch on long poles, the scabbard carved all over with beaters and falconers below pine (kozuka missing, age crack) -- the blade 7½in.long.
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