A cloisonné-enamel koshira-e (mounting) with tanto (dagger) The cloisonné-enamel mounts: Meiji era (1868-1912), the blade: Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century The scabbard and hilt worked throughout in silver wire, and decorated with overlapping assorted crests and chrysanthemum blossoms floating on stylised rippled water, the tsuka (hilt) with other repeated stylised foliate crests on a ground of karakusa ('Chinese grasses'), the sides with a band of repeated geometric and hanabishi (flowery-diamond) motifs on a yellow ground, fitted with plain silver mounts, the blade of hira-zukuri form, with bo-hi to either side, indistinct ha, vague itame-hada; unsigned. Overall: 39.2cm (15 3/8in); the blade: 23.7cm (9 5/16in).