A wakizashi

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A wakizashi
with silk bound shagreen hilt, gilt shakudo nanako fuchi and menuki decorated with cranes in flight, horn kashira, mokkogata iron tsuba and plain black lacquered scabbard, the blade -- 20 7/8in. (53cm) long, 17th Century, Mino province, signed; and another with lacquer doeskin bound shagreen hilt, stippled black lacquer scabbard, silver and gilt iron fuchi-kashira decorated with herons, gilt bronze menuki in the form of vases of flowers and small oval iron tsuba, the blade -- 14¾in. (37.5cm) long, 17th Century, signed. (2)