A wakizashi with iron tsuba, decorated with chrysanthemums, leather bound shagreen hilt, mounted with gilt bronze menuki modelled as insects and similar fuchi-kashira, the speckled red and black lacquer ribbed scabbard fitted with iron kozuka decorated in gilt with a shield and flowerheads (blade badly worn, hilt cracked) -- the blade 14¾.in.long, The blade circa 1500.