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Source Description
Wood saya worked with pine bark and large silver snake coiling arond it. Mountings of silver with gold detail; Tsuba with dragon clutching a jewel. Gold habaki. Kozuka handle of sentoku with lizard and orchids. Very heavy blade with the double-edged sword of the fierce Buddhist deity Fudo Myo-o, a dragon coiled around it, is engraved on the blade. Inscribed "Yasutsugu (Third Generation) Made in Tokyo, around 1665.
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Document identity
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22491
label
Short sword (wakizashi) with a large silver snake coiled around pine bark saya (includes 51.1269.1-51.1269.5)
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22491
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title
Short sword (wakizashi) with a large silver snake coiled around pine bark saya (includes 51.1269.1-51.1269.5)
description
Wood saya worked with pine bark and large silver snake coiling arond it. Mountings of silver with gold detail; Tsuba with dragon clutching a jewel. Gold habaki. Kozuka handle of sentoku with lizard and orchids. Very heavy blade with the double-edged sword of the fierce Buddhist deity Fudo Myo-o, a dragon coiled around it, is engraved on the blade. Inscribed "Yasutsugu (Third Generation) Made in Tokyo, around 1665.
provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
Ca.1800 (Edo-Meiji)
citationUrl
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CC0
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en
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short swords
wakizashi
wakizashi blade
tsuba
fuchi
kashira
kozuka
kogai
saya
tsu
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3
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3
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 26 9/16 in. (67.5 cm)
Source extras
cul
Japanese
inscriptions
[Signature] Kikokusai Nakagawa Yasunori; [Transcription] Yasutsugu motte Namban tetsu oite Bushu tsukuru kore; [Translation] Yasutsugu made this in Bushu province
using Namban (Western) steel; [Transcription] Oe Masakuni
zoku yo sei shi
Kami (no) katana (no) tame shi
goto
Hitotsuyanagi Tomotoshi; [Translation] See remarks
RelatedObjects
13718
21471
9081
med
Steel, silver, gold, copper alloy (sentoku), wood, lacquer
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4406
4738
6161
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none
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none
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