Ornamental dough with a hilt mounted in sawasa; The hilt is mounted in sawasa and consists of a molded; ajour-worked baffle plate with black and gilt foliage with heads of samples around panels with plum blossom twigs in bas-relief on a gilt fish skin-like surface; repeated on the other parts of the hilt; the wooden handle is clad in steel and wound with twisted copper wire and has silver braided grip rings on the top and bottom. The holding triangular cross-section of the blade changes in the shape of a diamond in the direction of the tip; the blade is etched with trophies; trellis work and rococo curly work; Japan; anonymous; 1700 - 1725 and/or 1775 - 1799; gilding (material); wood (plant material); steel (alloy); silver (metal); gilding; l 93.3 cm l 78.2 cm 脙鈥?w 1.45 cm