A JAPANESE TANTO (SHORT-EDGED SWORD)

£400 - £600 £693

A JAPANESE TANTO (SHORT-EDGED SWORD)
PROBABLY MEIJI, 19TH CENTURY

With a striped lacquer saya (scabbard) and a white shagreen handle, the fuchi-kashira decorated with paulownia mon and the circular menuki with wheat; the kozuka handle embellished with a man resting by a waterfall; with an iron quatrelobed tsuba; the blade 27.2cm. (3)