金魚子地秋草図金具合口拵・付銀刀 Blade and Mounting for a Dagger (<i>Tantō</i>)
宮田信清 Miyata Nobukiyo
mid–late 19th century
Medium
Steel, silver, copper, copper-gold alloy (<i>shakudō</i>), gold, ray skin (<i>same</i>), baleen, lacquer
Dimensions
L. 9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm); L. of blade 13 9/16 in. (34.5 cm); L. of cutting edge 9 7/16 in. (23.9 cm)
Classification
Daggers
Culture
Japanese
Department
Arms and Armor
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Brayton Ives and W. T. Walters, 1891
Accession Number
91.2.75