Details
A miniature lacquer daisho
with steel blades, shagreen hilts and fitted with gilt-metal foliate menuki, silver fittings, the aogai spinkled scabbards decorated in gold lacquer with geometric roundels -- 5¼ and 7.in (13.3 and 17.8cm) long; a gold lacquer miniature katana with shagreen hilt and the scabbard decorated with mon -- 8¾.in (22.2cm) long; a miniature sword with silk-bound shagreen hilt and part-shagreen and lacquer scabbrd decorated with flowers -- 7½.in (19.1cm) long, (damages); and a miniature ivory sword carved with a coiled dragon among clouds -- 4¼.in (10.8cm) long.
See Colour Plate 6. (5)
with steel blades, shagreen hilts and fitted with gilt-metal foliate menuki, silver fittings, the aogai spinkled scabbards decorated in gold lacquer with geometric roundels -- 5¼ and 7.in (13.3 and 17.8cm) long; a gold lacquer miniature katana with shagreen hilt and the scabbard decorated with mon -- 8¾.in (22.2cm) long; a miniature sword with silk-bound shagreen hilt and part-shagreen and lacquer scabbrd decorated with flowers -- 7½.in (19.1cm) long, (damages); and a miniature ivory sword carved with a coiled dragon among clouds -- 4¼.in (10.8cm) long.
See Colour Plate 6. (5)