The 19th-century mounts comprising a black-lacquer saya mounted with matching silver fittings with gold takazogan decorated with tigers in bamboo, including an extended sayajiri with a tiger by rocks and a stream under a grove of bamboo, the cat’s stipes highlighted in gilt, a kurikata wrapping around the saya and carved with a tiger on a rock, and a koiguchi with clouds and bamboo leaves, dated Meiji yon kanoto-hitsuji chushun kore o horu (Carved in February, 1871), fitted with a kozuka with a copper and silver handle decorated with waves in kebori, the tsuka fitted with a fuchi carved as a snarling tiger by a rushing waterfall, signed Seiryoken Hagiya Katsuhira gyonen rokuju hachi (Seiryoken Hagiya Katsuhira at age 68) and with a kao, and a kashira with a crouching tiger, signed Katsuhira and with a kao, the large gold and shakudo menuki formed as tigers, the russet-iron plate tsuba with a tiger on rocks among bamboo, looking down at a rushing waterfall in iro-e takazogan signed Mito no ju Hagiya Katsuhira (Hagiya Katsuhira of Mito), with a kao and dated Meiji yon kanoto-hitsuji chuto (November, 1871)