Description: dating: machi Period (1392-1573) provenance: Japan, Nagasa shinogi-zukuri with ko-kissaki, length 60 cm; hamon: Suguha with sunagashi and ashi, hada: Ko-itame / nashiji, silver habaki; nakago suriage, kiri with one mekugi-ana, the other in half, partial mei 'Bi' for 'Bizen'. Koshirae with iron tsuba, pierced with a drawing of three pumpkins, fuchi-kashira in shakudo, partially gilded, portraying rats and beans, menuki with lotus leaves; green tsuka on same. Wooden saya, lacquered in black. Blade of the late Muromachi era 1450/1500. length 83 cm.