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Blade and Mounting for a Short Sword (<i>Wakizashi</i>)
Unknown maker
- Medium
- Steel, wood, rayskin (<i>same</i>), thread, silver, copper-gold alloy (<i>shakudō</i>), gold
- Dimensions
- L. 22 15/16 in. (58.2 cm); L. of blade 19 11/16 in. (50 cm); L. of cutting edge 15 11/16 in. (39.8 cm); D. of curvature 1/2 in. (1.2 cm)
- Culture
- Japanese
- Department
- Arms and Armor
- Classification
- Swords
- Dated
- blade and mounting, 19th century; sword guard, 16th century
- Pixels
- 4000 × 2036
- SHA-256
- 68633c260c0925ce…
- Record
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License, verbatimCC0
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Blade and Mounting for a Short Sword (<i>Wakizashi</i>). blade and mounting, 19th century; sword guard, 16th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.