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Dagger with Pine, Plum, and Bamboo on the Fittings

Bizen School (Japanese) (Metalworker)
Kajita Masaharu (Japanese, died 1887) , Metal fittings by (Metalworker)
1536 (late Edo; Meiji; Muromachi)
steel, gold, East Indian ironwood, gilded copper, textile
(Arms and Armor , Japan and Korea )

Inscription

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

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

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Geographies

Japan, Bizen (Place of Origin)

Measurements

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

Credit Line

Acquired by Henry Walters

Location in Museum

Not on view

Accession Number

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51.1277

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