- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Short sword [.1] with curved single edged blade and curved hilt, with curved sheath [.2] of matt black lacquered wood.
- Long description
- Short sword [.1] with curved single edged blade and curved hilt, with curved sheath [.2] of matt black lacquered wood. The blade and hilt have the same curve. The hilt is made of wood, covered with ray skin and bound with textile cord. It has a decorative copper cap at the butt and two ornamental brass figures (one is a human form) bound into the textile grip. The hilt has an iron guard, tsuba, that has a stamped or incised herringbone pattern and a perforation for a kogai. The sheath is curved with decorative copper alloy mountings. [SM 08/10/2007]
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Japanese
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Possibly before 1874
- Date collected
- ?By 1874
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Steel Metal, Material Wood Plant, Material Lacquer Varnish, Material Stingray Skin Fish, Material Copper Metal, Material Textile, Material Brass Metal, Process Forged (Metal), Process Carved, Process Bound, Process Lacquered Varnished, Process Cast, Process Incised
- Dimensions
- Length: max 613 mm sword, Width: max 70 mm sword, Length: max 479 mm sheath, Width: max 39 mm sheath, Length: max 655 mm together
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.24.61.1 Accession number: 1884.24.61.2 PR Cat other PR nos: 1087
- Research and responses
Related Documents File - Information supplied by Colin Langton, 1995, includes "overall length 65.5 cm". It gives in-depth details of type, style & design, and diagrams. [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
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