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A daisho,
each sword with silk-bound shagreen hilts, with iron tsuba decorated in gilt with figures before a fence below pine, gilt-bronze fuch-kashira decorated with warrios on horseback among pine and gilt-bronze and silver menuki modelled as helmets and swords, both with black lacquer scabbards decorated with leaves and foliage, the katana fitted with a kozuka decorated with a vase of flowers -- the blades 17.in (43.1cm) and 26¼.in (67.3cm)long, inscribed Bizen Kuni Yoshinori and Tadahiro, (old wear, kozuka missing from wakizashi).
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each sword with silk-bound shagreen hilts, with iron tsuba decorated in gilt with figures before a fence below pine, gilt-bronze fuch-kashira decorated with warrios on horseback among pine and gilt-bronze and silver menuki modelled as helmets and swords, both with black lacquer scabbards decorated with leaves and foliage, the katana fitted with a kozuka decorated with a vase of flowers -- the blades 17.in (43.1cm) and 26¼.in (67.3cm)long, inscribed Bizen Kuni Yoshinori and Tadahiro, (old wear, kozuka missing from wakizashi).
See Illustration. (2)