JAPON XVIE - XVIIE SIÈCLE
Tantô with hira-zukuri blade, gunome hamon, nakago with two mekugi-ana signed (Kiyo) mitsu ? (the key of the first kanji is not legible); koshirae with ringed scabbard speckled with red and brown, with two kogai, one partially gilded with a crane in flight on a shakudo background, signed, the other in iron and gold highlights, with birds above the waves; small tsuba in sentoku without decoration; fuchi-kashira in iron and sentoku with flowers and clouds, menuki in suaka and gold highlights with vegetal motifs.
L. 29 cm
(Traces of oxidation on the blade, some kizu; iron kogai, oxidized; lacquer gaps on the scabbard; missing kurigata)
