Menuki of bronze, gold inlaid, of a tethered ox: Japan

Menuki of bronze, gold inlaid, of a tethered ox: Japan

Menuki of bronze, touched with gold, with two wild boar running: Japan

Sword (katana), with scabbard of brick-red lacquered wood with metal mounts, hilt covered in rayskin and bound with white silk into which is fitted a pair of menuki ornaments, and a tsuba of shakudo nanako and gold decorated with a lion-dog (shishi) and peony, Japan, possibly 18th century

Tachi or court sword, with curved pointed tempered single-edged steel blade, a ray skin hilt bound with silk cords, two gilt menuki, and a tsuba of dark alloy, and a scabbard of wood decorated with a dragon on nashiji lacquer with dark alloy mounts and flat silk suspension cords: Japan, 17th century