Ask the Scholar

{
    "localId": "5433",
    "label": "Long Sword with Imitation Bamboo Saya and Dragon",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1218"
}

{
    "id": "5433",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1218",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Long Sword with Imitation Bamboo Saya and Dragon",
    "description": "This piece has a brown lacquer \"saya\" in imitation of bamboo and mountings decorated with gold dragons on a silver nanako ground, of fine technique.  The piece has a silver dragon \"menuki,\" a gold \"habaki,\" and a double \"seppa\" of gold and silver.  A two-handed \"tsuka\" has a same (ray skin) and ito-maki (broken).",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown];  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1817-1882 (late Edo-Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1218",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "long sword",
        "blade",
        "tsuba",
        "fuchi",
        "kashira",
        "menuki",
        "saya",
        "tsuka"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_51.1218_Gp_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_51.1218_Gp_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_51.1218_Gp_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "mounted katana: 35 13/16 in. (91 cm) (l.)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": [
        "kazusa (no) kami fujiwara munemichi; [Translation] Munemichi",
        "of the Fujiwara clan",
        "Lord of Kazusa"
    ],
    "med": "lacquer, silver, gilded copper, gold, wood, steel",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6100",
        "6678"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

{
    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL9_51.1218_Gp_BW.jpg",
    "mediaId": "3d90e4db9baca8e9"
}