A wakizashi with silk bound shagreen hilt, oval gilt-iron tsuba pierced with coiled dragons, gilt-bronze fuchi-kashira decorated in relief with dragons on a nanako ground, gilt-bronze menuki modelled as dragons and kozuka with similar decoration, silver habaki, the scabbard with scattered aogai nashiji decoration -- the blade 19in. (48.2cm) long, circa1700, signed Hisa Michi.