The blade of hira-zukuri configuration forged in itame-hada and a narrow suguha tempered edge of nioi, carved with suken-hi on one side and koshi-hi no soe-hi with bonji on the other, the ubu tang with three holes, signed Soshu no ju Hiromasa, 10 3/8in, in a shirasaya
The 19th-century koshira-e comprising a black-lacquer saya decorated with paulownia in gold hiramaki-e and with scattered inlaid-gold paulownia crests; the tsuba of gold nanako with paulownia crests in relief; the shakudo nanako kozuka and kogai with a phoenix and paulownia in gold takazogan, the kozuka signed Mitsuyoshi and with a kao, the kogai signed Kawamura Hiroshige sen; the gold nanako fuchi-gashira decorated with informal paulownias in relief, signed Kawamura Hiroshige; the gold kurikata carved with a phoenix in paulownia and the kojiri of plain gold nanako