Knife Handle (Kozuka) with Blade

Unknown maker

Medium: Steel, copper-gold alloy (shakudō), gold
Dimensions: L. including blade 8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm); L. excluding blade 3 13/16 in. (9.7 cm); W. 9/16 in. (1.4 cm); thickness 1/4 in. (0.6 cm); Wt. 1.7 oz. (48.2 g)
Culture: Japanese
Department: Arms and Armor
Classification: Sword Furniture-Kozuka
Dated: blade, dated 1688; knife handle, before 1870
Pixels: 4000 × 2250
SHA-256: 8621e9b4f8d7a54d…
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.

Knife Handle (Kozuka) with Blade. blade, dated 1688; knife handle, before 1870. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.