"Wakisashi" or Japanese short sword with wooden scabbard sheathed in partially marbled parchment. Iron tsuba decorated with flowers in slight relief and wooden handle laced with braided leather strips. Scabbard without its kotuba. The blade has a cartouche with inscriptions JAPAN - First half of the 20th century Length : 71 cm (worn patina on the braided leather straps of the handle, slightly damaged edge in several places)