IMAI ŌSHIN 今井応心 (1874/5–1951)A stag-antler scepter in the form of a lotus root Japan, Showa era (1926–1989), 1946|The principal branch of the antler left mostly uncarved except for the joins between the sections of the lotus root, the lesser branches carved as curled lotus leaves just about to open out, one of them with a tiny frog, signed near the base of the principal branch Nanajūni-ō Ōshin tō 七十二翁応心刀 (Carved by Ōshin at the age of 72)With a wood tomobako storage box incribed outside Shikazunozai renkon okimono 鹿角材　蓮根置物 (Stag-antler lotus-root ornament) and signed Hinoe-inu shunjitsu Ōshin saku jinen Nanajūni-ō 丙戌春日　応心作　時年七十二翁 (made by Ōshin in spring of 1946 at the age of 72) with a seal Ōshin 応心 23in (58.5cm) long