Blade - Sword and Dragon
This iconography of a dragon wrapped around a sword represents 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 rain dragon wrappe...
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Artifact
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36783
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object
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normalized
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provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquistion unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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en
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4
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import
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1220.4 |