A FINE KOSHIRA-E FOR A WAKIZASHI Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century The fine lacquer saya decorated with numerous crows in flight in glossy black hiramaki-e against a ground of alternating stripes of black and dark green, mounted with a copper kurikata chiseled and inlaid in gold, brass, and shakudō with a spider about to devour a bee trapped in its web, and fitted with a shakudō kozuka chiseled in low relief and inlaid in gold with a dragon emerging from clouds, the tsuka wrapped in brown sil