← the wall
Blade and Mounting for a Short Sword (Wakizashi)click to zoom
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Blade and Mounting for a Short Sword (Wakizashi)

Naganori
Medium
Steel, wood, lacquer, rayskin (samé), thread, gold, silver
Dimensions
L. 32 7/8 in. (83. 5 cm); L. of blade 25 15/16 in. (65.8 cm); L. of cutting edge 19 5/8 in. (49.8 cm); D. of curvature 5/16 in. (0.75 cm)
Culture
Japanese
Department
Arms and Armor
Classification
Swords
Dated
blade, late 13th–early 14th century; mounting, 18th–early 19th century
Pixels
4000 × 2033
SHA-256
183da658bba31a3f…
Record
View at the source institution ↗
License, verbatimCC0
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Open Access, Creative Commons Zero (CC0). Flagged isPublicDomain=true in the museum's own record.
Naganori. Blade and Mounting for a Short Sword (Wakizashi), blade, late 13th–early 14th century; mounting, 18th–early 19th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Download original · 2.4 MBFind its kinWander from here