Japan. Dated: Genroku 13th year = 1700, 2nd month. Tachi mounting later, maybe Meiji period with bronze and lacquer. Shinto ?dachi, tori sori, nakago 3,4cm, shinogi-zukuri, hikue iori mune, without bo hi, hada and hamon not visible, hamachi and mune machi, nakago jiri futsu with two mekugi ana. Tsuba iron in mokkugata shape, signed: Yamashiro no Kuni Fushimi Kaneie and Kao, framed with bronze, seppa and ? seppa bronze with engraved scrolls, large menuki in bronze with the butterfly mon of the families Ikeda and Daid?ji. Complete length with mounting 166cm, blade length complete 148,5cm, blade length (nagasa) 111,6cm, width at the back (kasane) 1,1cm, width (mihaba) 4,2cm. Sign.: Mei: Awataguchi Ikkanshi Tadatsuna hori-d?saku. Engraved on the blade on each side a dragon with ken at the tail. Condition A/B. Later polished, maybe about 1900. Provenance: -Rhenish private collection, acquired 1964 at Lempertz.