Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Long steel blade with hilt wrapped spirally with black cord. Beneath cord, pebble-like texture. Pine-tree menuki. Oval tsuba of iron, silver, gold, and shibuichi. Design is a man and frog. Haliki silver plate. Fuchi-Kashira-bird of shibuichi and gold. Mark of tempering: HAMON, Gume Midare. The nakago is tong and has two holes.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Anonymous Donor
- 1596–1615
- Accession Number
- 1941-59-7-a/c
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- metalwork
- Decorative Arts
- Scabbard and sword
- Medium
- Steel, cord, iron, silver, gold, shibuichi
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 64.5 x 6 x 3.5 cm (25 3/8 x 2 3/8 x 1 3/8 in.)
- Place
- Yamato, Japan
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1941-59-7-a_c
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq46221e35b-9dc3-4c16-b97b-e6ecfdeda0ab
