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Sword (katana), with scabbard of brick-red lacquered wood with metal mounts, hilt covered in rayskin and bound with white silk into which is fitted a pair of menuki ornaments, and a tsuba of shakudo nanako and gold decorated with a lion-dog (shishi) and peony, Japan, possibly 18th century
Tachi or court sword, with curved pointed tempered single-edged steel blade, a ray skin hilt bound with silk cords, two gilt menuki, and a tsuba of dark alloy, and a scabbard of wood decorated with a dragon on nashiji lacquer with dark alloy mounts and flat silk suspension cords: Japan, 17th century