cover [to go with sword .1 and sheath .2] made from brocade woven silk. [SM 11/03/2008]

Collection type: Object
Description: cover [to go with sword .1 and sheath .2] made from brocade woven silk. [SM 11/03/2008]
Geographical reference: Japan
Asia > Eastern Asia > Japan
Cultural groups: Japanese
Person: Field collector Henry Balfour; PRM source Henry Balfour
Date / Period: Date made: 1325-1375?, uncertain
Date collected: By 1939
Acquisition information: Bequeathed: 1939
Materials and processes: Material Silk Textile Animal, Process Brocaded Woven, Process Stitched
Dimensions: Width: max 120 mm, Length: max 1160 mm approx
Object numbers: Accession number: 1938.35.1436.3 Other numbers: 2106
Research and responses: Related Documents File - Detailed information supplied by Colin Langton, 1998. Type is given as a "Tachi blade, mounted in a Shira Saya (plain wood storage scabbard)". His general comment on the blade is "This is a very well constructed blade of excellent workmanship, and in excellent condition, displaying all the forging features one would expect to find in a blade of the Nao Shizu school made during the second to the third quarter of the 14th cent. [CF 7/1/2002]

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