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Blade and Mounting for a Short Sword (Wakizashi)
Fusamune of Soshu
- Medium
- Steel, wood, lacquer, ray skin (samé), silk, copper-gold alloy (shakudō), gold, silver
- Dimensions
- L. 29 3/4 in. (75.7 cm); L. of blade 24 3/8 in. (62 cm); L. of cutting edge 19 5/8 in. (50 cm); D. of curvature 3/8 in. (0.9 cm)
- Culture
- Japanese
- Department
- Arms and Armor
- Classification
- Swords
- Dated
- blade, late 15th–early 16th century; mounting, 18th century
- Pixels
- 4000 × 2250
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Fusamune of Soshu. Blade and Mounting for a Short Sword (Wakizashi), blade, late 15th–early 16th century; mounting, 18th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.