Long steel blade with hilt wrapped spirally with black cord. Beneath cord, pebble-like texture. Pine-tree menuki. Oval tsuba of iron, silver, gold, and shibuichi. Design is a man and frog. Haliki silver plate. Fuchi-Kashira-bird of shibuichi and gold. Mark of tempering: HAMON, Gume Midare. The nakago is tong and has two holes.
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Unknown artist<span style="display: none;">Unknown artist</span></div>
1596–1615
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