O Wakizashi, would love help with authentication and additional information
Managed to snag this at a post-auction sale. Would love to have some more experienced eyes look at it. Looking for help with authentication and identification. Here's the seller's description:
Wakizashi with a highly irregular choji hamon, copper habaki, and nakago featuring a mekugi-ana; inscription: 備中國呰部住為家 Tameie, resident of Bitchu Province; tsuka with yellow cord wrapping over same; round iron tsuba featuring a "leaves and hills" design (indistinctly signed); fuchi/kashira with nanako decoration and gold wire kakigan (indistinctly signed); copper menuki depicting a "bouquet of flowers"; saya finished in black urushi lacquer with maki-e decoration of "bird and waves"; simple kesho polish; Japanese Shinshinto period (19th century); blade length approx. 61 cm, total length approx. 82 cm; urushi lacquer restored; signs of use.