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A wakizashi
with silk bound shagreen hilt, gilt bronze fuchi-kashira and menuki decorated with mon on nanako grounds, oval iron tsuba also decorated with mon, signed, shakudo nanako kozuka decorated with peonies, gilt nanako kojiri and koi-guchi and stippled black lacquer scabbard decorated in gold and silver iroe-hiramakie with a fruiting egg plant -- the blade 15¾in. (40cm) long, 17th Century, unsigned, with accompanying certificate giving an attribution to Owari Nobutaka

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