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Blade and Mounting for a Short Sword (Wakizashi)
Sadakuni
- Medium
- Steel, wood, lacquer, ray skin (samé), malachite, leather, gold, copper-gold alloy (shakudō), copper-silver alloy (shibuichi),
- Dimensions
- L. 20 1/2 in. (52.1 cm); L. of blade 16 1/4 in. (41.2 cm); L. of cutting edge 12 5/8 in. (32 cm); D. of curvature 1/8 in. (0.3 cm)
- Culture
- Japanese
- Department
- Arms and Armor
- Classification
- Swords
- Dated
- blade, late16th–early 17th century; mounting, 19th century
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Sadakuni. Blade and Mounting for a Short Sword (Wakizashi), blade, late16th–early 17th century; mounting, 19th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.