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Description
WAKIZASHI
with a shinogi-zukuri blade, suguha hamon, a nakago with one mekugi-ana; each side of the blade is decorated with a horimono depicting a branch of flowering plum on one side and bamboo on the other. Without koshirae, with a shirasaya (apocryphal or not its original scabbard) bearing the inscriptions: “Yamashiro no kuni Nishijin (no) jû Umetada Myôju kore wo tsukuru” on one side and “Daikin sanbyakumai” (300 gold pieces).
(Stains and minor oxidation on the blade; wear to the saya).
Japan, 19th century.
A WAKIZASHI, INSCRIBED UMETADA MYOJU, JAPAN, 19TH CENTURY.
LENGTH: 38.4 CM (15 1/8 IN.)
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