Japanese edged weapons. A wakizashi blade with ivory saya, 19th c, with ivory tsuba, the finely carved ivory hilt and scabbard decorated in several registers with continuous densely peopled scenes and terminating in the head of a dragon, overall length 108.5cm A good example of the type with some natural age yellowing of the ivory and one or two minor shrinkage cracks only, blade in good condition, Tang unexamined