Description: dating: 19th/20th Century provenance: Japan, Nagasa shinogi-zukuri with ko-kissaki, length 59.8 cm, visible hada and hamon, copper, gilded habaki; nakago mumei with one mekugi-ana; koshirae with pierced tsuba, fuchi-kashira and menuki decorated with floral motifs. Original tsuka on same. Kashira with hishi-gata Kamon used by various clans of samurai such as Goto, Ida, Nanbu and Tojo. Complete with scabbard and sword-knot (of a major). length 86 cm.