Description: dating: mid-17th Century provenance: Japan, Nagasa shinogi-zukuri with o-kissaki, length 35.5 cm, hamon: Gunome; hada: Mokume, silver, engraved habaki; ubu nakago with haagari, katesagari and one mekugi-ana. Koshirae with oval tsuba in shakudo with brass border, menuki with abumi and horse tools, fine fuchi decorated in gold, copper and silver, portraying raffigurante farmers mei: Wada Masatatsu; black, horn kashira. Same of big granules, tsuka in a court style. Wooden saya, lacquered in black, fine ko-katana-mei with kozuka portraying a fighting samurai, partially gilded. With NTHK Kanteisho attribution to Noshu Jumbo (active abt. 1650). length 51.5 cm.