A wakizashi, with sukashi tsuba modelled as a stylised bird among breaking waves, gilt-bronze fuchi decorated in takazogan with flowering branches, lacquered kashira and gilt-bronze menuki modelled as insects, black lacquered scabbard fitted with gilt-copper kozuka decorated with insects on a nanako ground and the blade signed -- the blade 18¼.in.long, the blade signed Kuniyasu.

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A wakizashi, with sukashi tsuba modelled as a stylised bird among breaking waves, gilt-bronze fuchi decorated in takazogan with flowering branches, lacquered kashira and gilt-bronze menuki modelled as insects, black lacquered scabbard fitted with gilt-copper kozuka decorated with insects on a nanako ground and the blade signed -- the blade 18¼.in.long, the blade signed Kuniyasu.

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