A beautiful wakizashi in coeval koshirae, mei: Sakuyo Bakka-shi Hosokawa Masamori Koku-in dating: Period (1603-1867) provenance: Japan Shinogi zukuri yori mune blade. Nagasa: 41,1 cm. O-kissaki. Hada: thick ko mokume with chikei (Bizen-style manufacturing). Hamon: Suguha in thick nioi deki. Boshi: suguha ko maru kaeriyoru. Nakago: light suriage kurijiri. Yasurime: kesho o-sujikai. Horimono: kurikara ura omote (dragon). Mei: 'Sakuyo Bakka-shi Hosokawa Masamori Koku-in / Bunkyu Ni-nen nigatsu-hi'. (Manufactured by Hosokawa Masamori, Bakufu's servant, from the Mimasaka area). Shinshinto-Bunkyu era (1862), Hosokawa Masayoshi (Yukihide) school. In elegant koshirae with tsuba in shakudo shaped as mokko, featuring a dragon among relieved clouds. The fuchi-kashira and menuki with dragons. All the elements en suite with the blade (kurikara). The fuchi signed 'Goto Seijo' (fmaybe forth generation). With a dragon also at the kozuka. Saya with a very beautiful dragon lacquered in gold and red. Eldest son of Masayoshi, he was hired by the Chief of the Tsuyama clan, in the Mimasaka region. length 59 cm.