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Blade for a Dagger (<i>Tantō</i>) with Mounting (<i>Chisagatana</i>)
Unknown maker
- Medium
- Steel, copper-gold alloy (<i>shakudō</i>), copper-silver alloy (<i>shubuichi</i>), wood, lacquer, abalone shell, ray skin, silk, whale bone (baleen)
- Dimensions
- L. 18 1/4 in. (46.4 cm); W. 2 in. (5.1 cm); Wt. 1 lb. 1.9 oz. (507.5 g)
- Culture
- Japanese
- Department
- Arms and Armor
- Classification
- Daggers
- Dated
- mid- to late 19th century
- Pixels
- 4000 × 2250
- SHA-256
- ff06ff1dcbc487eb…
- Record
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License, verbatimCC0
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Open Access, Creative Commons Zero (CC0). Flagged isPublicDomain=true in the museum's own record.
Blade for a Dagger (<i>Tantō</i>) with Mounting (<i>Chisagatana</i>). mid- to late 19th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.