Description: A katana dating: 19th Century provenance: Japan Blade (nagasa), 68 cm with well visible hamon and hada; copper and silver habaki; nakago with one mekugi-ana, mei; iron tsuba with bat, partially gilt, mei; shakudo fuchi-kashira with partially gilt effigy of face and floral motifs; shakudo menuki shaped as a partially gilt dragon; red lacquered saya.