Dagger with Seashells on the Sheath

Provenance Inscription Credit

Provenance Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Transcription] Saneyo saku; [Transcription] [ ][ ][ ] Irie Saneyo; [Translation] Made by Saneyo; [Translation] [unread] Irie Saneyo

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters

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1825-1875 (late Edo; Meiji; Muromachi)

steel, gold, dark brown lacquer, ray skin, sea shell, gilded copper, baleen, horn, copper alloy, wood, textile, leather
(Arms & Armor)

51.1294

11 7/16 in. (29.05 cm) (l.)