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Short sword (wakizashi) with a large silver snake coiled around pine bark saya (includes 51.1269.1-51.1269.5)
Wood saya worked with pine bark and large silver snake coiling arond it. Mountings of silver with gold detail; Tsuba with dragon clutching a jewel. Gold habaki. Kozuka handle of sentoku with lizard and orchids. Very heavy blade with the double-edged sword of the fierce Buddhist deity Fudo Myo-o, a dragon coiled around it, is engraved on the blade. Inscribed "Yasutsugu (Third Generation) Made in Tokyo, around 1665.
Inscription
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| 12/13/1990 | Treatment | cleaned |
Geographies
Mito in Hitachi province
(Place of Origin)
Japan, Tokyo (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Overall: 26 9/16 in. (67.5 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
51.1269
