A Musashi katana with a cutting test in mounts Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912), dated 1868 Of honzukuri, iorimune configuration with a chu-gissaki tip and toriizori curvature forged in running itame hada with a suguha tempered edge with hints of ko-gunome and a ko-maru boshi, the ubu tang with kesho file marks, one hole, and signed Sakuyo Bakkashi Hosokawa Masamori (Bakkashi Hosokawa Masamori of Mimasaka Province), Shikazuno oyobi kosatsu kobo o tameshita (Tested on stag antler and steel armor plates), and Keio yonen tsuchinoe-tatsu-doshi moshun kore o seitan (Carefully forged in early spring of 1868), with a gold-foil one-piece habaki, 28 1/4in (71.8cm) long In an efu-tachi goshirae comprising a cherry-bark saya mounted with gilt-copper fittings including koiguchi, ashi, semegane and sayajiri, all carved with crashing waves in takabori, the tsuka wrapped in purple silk over same and fitted with fuchi-gashira decorated to match the saya hardware and gilt menuki formed as a running boar and a crescent moon obscured by clouds, the sanmai awase mokko plate tsuba decorated with paulownia crests in gold takazogan on a shakudo nanako ground