Description: Blade: Form: Iorimune with shinogizukuri. Itame-masame-hada, suguhahamon with nie. The tang (nakago) ubu and mumei with a mekugiana, its tip kurijiri, no filing marks. Mountings: Shiny black lacquer saya with small blemishes. The iron tsuba has mokkogata, both hitsu and bears engraved characters on both sides, some with the characters for “large” and “samurai”. Black lacquered iron fuchi and kashira with floral engravings in which is silver and gold hirazogan inlay. The bronze menuki beneath the newer tsuka-ito each have the form of a fruit with partial gilding. Condition: The sheath with small blemishes, the tsuba with some rust; The blade with minor fissures along the sword, a group of larger fissures on one side; generally worn, but acceptable condition Provenance: From a Hungarian private collection