グリ彫金具脇指拵 Blade and Mounting for a Short Sword (<i>Wakizashi</i>)
尾張関 Owari-Seki
blade, 17th century; mounting, 19th century
Medium
Steel, wood, lacquer, ray skin (<i>same</i>), baleen, copper-gold alloy (<i>shakudō</i>), copper (<i>hiirodō</i>)
Dimensions
L. 24 3/4 in. (62.9 cm); L. of blade 17 1/4 in. (43.9 cm); L. of cutting edge 12 1/2(31.8 cm); D. of curvature 3/16 in. (0.5 cm); L. of kozuka 8 in. (20.3 cm); L. of kogai 8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm)
Classification
Swords
Culture
Japanese
Department
Arms and Armor
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Howard Mansfield Collection, Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1936
Accession Number
36.120.423a–d