A wakizashi with silver-inlaid iron tsuba decorated with scrolling foliage, similar gilt-inlaid fuchi-kashira, leather bound shagreen hilt fitted with bronze menuki modelled as mythical animals, silver-mounted black lacquer scabbard -- the blade 14½.in.long, the blade 1750.

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A wakizashi with silver-inlaid iron tsuba decorated with scrolling foliage, similar gilt-inlaid fuchi-kashira, leather bound shagreen hilt fitted with bronze menuki modelled as mythical animals, silver-mounted black lacquer scabbard -- the blade 14½.in.long, the blade 1750.

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