Saitama theme, signed Nukagawa Yasunori, kao. Tsuba made of full board of shakudo (an alloy of copper with gold). Signature master Yasunori, maiden name Nukagawa. Yasunori lived c. 1800 in the Mito town, Hitachi province. He was a student of Tamagawa Yosinaga. Precise engraving of the sacred Mount Fuji and the Japanese landscape. The use of other non-ferrous metals like copper and gold resulted in a three-dimensional drawing with numerous stunning highest precision details. 1 functional hole, ta