A Wakizashi
Unsigned, Shinto
The blade with one mekugi-ana, suguha hamon with nioi, fully bound tsuka with shakudo fuchi-kashira decorated with monkeys with soft-metal details and signed Hidechika, shakudo monkey menuki with soft-metal details, and iron sukashi tsuba chiselled and pierced with monkeys and foliage, signed Sadatsugu, in its lacquered saya decorated with Japanese maple leaves in red and brown against a black ground, shakudo koi-guchi and kojiri decorated en suite with the tsuka, and complete with iron kodzuka decorated with foliage and Kiri-mon in gold
34.9 cm. blade