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印籠刻昆虫図螺鈿据文象嵌鞘打刀拵 Blade and Mounting for a Sword (<i>Katana</i>)
Unknown maker
- Medium
- Steel, wood, lacquer, mother-of-pearl, rayskin (<i>same</i>), thread, copper-gold alloy (<i>shakudō</i>), copper-silver alloy (<i>shibuichi</i>), gold, iron
- Dimensions
- L. 38 11/16 in (98.2 cm); L. of blade 35 13/16 in. (90.9 cm); L. of cutting edge 27 3/4 in. (70.5 cm); D. of curvature 1/2 in. (1.2 cm)
- Culture
- Japanese
- Department
- Arms and Armor
- Classification
- Swords
- Dated
- blade 17th century; mounting 19th century
- Pixels
- 4000 × 1536
- SHA-256
- 62f95db7201f323f…
- Record
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License, verbatimCC0
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印籠刻昆虫図螺鈿据文象嵌鞘打刀拵 Blade and Mounting for a Sword (<i>Katana</i>). blade 17th century; mounting 19th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.