A Katana
with silkbound shagreen hilt, pierced quatrefoil iron tsuba decorated in gilt with insects, bronze menuki modelled as flowerheads, and kashira decorated with a shell below a stylised flowerhead and leaves, leather scabbard -- 39½in. (100.2cm.) long, unsigned, the blade 18th Century.
A Katana
with silkbound shagreen hilt, pierced quatrefoil iron tsuba decorated in gilt with insects, bronze menuki modelled as flowerheads, and kashira decorated with a shell below a stylised flowerhead and leaves, leather scabbard -- 39½in. (100.2cm.) long, unsigned, the blade 18th Century.
