Dagger with Pine, Plum, and Bamboo on the Fittings

Provenance Inscription Credit

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

Inscriptions [Transcription] Bizen Osafune...(corroded)/Tenmon go; [Transcription] Masaharu tsukuru; [Translation] ..... of Osafune, Bizen province/ Tenmon 5 (1536); [Translation] Made by Masaharu

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters

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Creators

Bizen School (Japanese) (Metalworker)
Kajita Masaharu (Japanese, died 1887) , Metal fittings by (Metalworker)

Period

1536 (late Edo; Meiji; Muromachi)

Medium

steel, gold, East Indian ironwood, gilded copper, textile
(Arms & Armor)

Accession Number

51.1277

Measurements

8 3/4 in. (22.23 cm) (l.)

Geographies

Japan, Bizen (Place of Origin)

Location Within Museum

Not On View

Kozuka with Pine Tree	Title
2nd half 19th century (late Edo-Meiji)	Period
51.1277.3	Accession