Blade and Mounting for a Dagger (Tantō)
Toshimasa|Kajikawa|Kuniyoshi
blade, dated 1525; mounting, 19th century · Steel, wood, copper-gold alloy (shakudō), copper-silver alloy (shibuichi), gold, lacquer, rayskin (samé), silk, abalone shell, silver · Arms and Armor
Kajikawa, a famous nineteenth-century lacquer artist, occasionally collaborated in making sword mountings.
- Artist
- Toshimasa|Kajikawa|Kuniyoshi
- Date
- blade, dated 1525; mounting, 19th century
- Medium
- Steel, wood, copper-gold alloy (shakudō), copper-silver alloy (shibuichi), gold, lacquer, rayskin (samé), silk, abalone shell, silver
- Culture
- Japanese
- Department
- Arms and Armor
- Credit line
- Gift of Brayton Ives and W. T. Walters, 1891
