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Source Description
This is the rain dragon coiled around Kôbô Daishi's sword. Kôbô Daishi (also known as Kûkai; 774-834) was a Buddhist priest who studied in China and founded the Shingon sect of Buddhism in Japan. It is said he used a sword that had a dragon wrapped around it to bring rain at the end of a drought.
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Document identity
localId
37053
label
Kozuka with a Dragon Coiled around a Sword
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obj
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object
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2
Source metadata
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37053
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object
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normalized
title
Kozuka with a Dragon Coiled around a Sword
description
This is the rain dragon coiled around Kôbô Daishi's sword. Kôbô Daishi (also known as Kûkai; 774-834) was a Buddhist priest who studied in China and founded the Shingon sect of Buddhism in Japan. It is said he used a sword that had a dragon wrapped around it to bring rain at the end of a drought.
provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
n.d.
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CC0
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en
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Arms & Armor
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sword components
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2
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2
source
import
dimensionsRaw
3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm) (l.)
Source extras
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Japanese
inscriptions
none[Sticker - edged with a blue trellis pattern] 863
med
silver, gold
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6194
collection_ids
JMA
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none
Page inventory
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1
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photo
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6ffc0256d0df2396
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no
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no
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2
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photo
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49884a515aa35719
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no
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no