Blade and Mounting for a Short Sword (Wakizashi)
blade, 15th century; mounting, late 18th century
Medium
Steel, wood, lacquer, ray skin (samé); thread, copper-gold alloy (shakudō), copper-silver alloy (shibuichi)
Dimensions
L. 27 1/16 in. (68.8 cm); L. of blade 24 5/16 in. (61.8 cm); L. of cutting edge 19 7/8 in. (50.5 cm); D. of curvature 9/16 in. (1.45 cm); L. of scabbard 19 3/4 in. (50.2 cm); knife (c); L. of blade 7 11/16 in. (19.5 cm); Wt. 0.4 oz. (11.3 g)
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
36.120.418a–c
About the Artist
Yasumitsu|Iwamoto Konkan (Japanese|Japanese) · 1400 |1744 –1500 |1801
Japanese, Muromachi period, 15th century|Japanese, Edo period, 1744–1801