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SMALL WAKIZASHI with shinogi-zukuri blade without...

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SMALL WAKIZASHI with shinogi-zukuri blade without yokote, gunome hamon, nakago suriage, with three mekugi ana, unsigned, with polisher striations; natural wood scabbard inlaid with sentoku flowers, polylobed iron tsuba with single hitsu-ana, with paulownia decoration in sentoku ; fuchi-kashira in shakudo and sentoku decorated with cherry blossoms, two menuki in sentoku with sprays of grass; kogatana with signed blade and kozuka in suaka with vegetal decoration. Japan, 17th century (Scratches, soiling; kojiri missing, two parts of the scabbard slightly detached, gaps in the koiguchi, kozuka and fuchi-kashira depatinated) L. 39,2 cm