A cloisonné-enamel koshira-e (mounting) with naginata-naoshi wakizashi (spear reforged into a short sword) The cloisonné-enamel mounts: Meiji era (1868-1912), the blade by Taira Shizukata/Shigemasa, Muromachi period (1333-1573), 16th century In the form of a small cut-down naginata blade; the scabbard and hilt worked in silver wire with a white three-clawed dragon writhing among aventurine-flecked kiri-mon (paulownia crests) and aoi-mon (hollyhock crests) on a pale-aubergine ground, the top with a mythological creature; the cloisonné-enamel habaki decorated with twisting red three-clawed dragons on a goldenrod ground; the blade of naginata-naoshi form, gunome-ha, itame-hada, kaeri-fukashi boshi, each side carved with stylised kurikara and soe-hi, the tang suriage-nakago with two overlapping mekugi-ana and kiri-yasuri file marks, signed [...] junin seisho [...] Taira Shizukata/Shigemasa; with a silk embroidered storage bag. Total length: 65cm (25½in) long; the blade: 41.1cm (16 3/16in) long. (2).