Blade and Mounting for a Dagger (Tantō)

Hidetsugu

blade, 19th century; mounting 19th century · Steel, wood, copper-gold alloy (shakudō), gold, lacquer, baleen, rayskin (samé) · Arms and Armor

Artist

Hidetsugu

Date

blade, 19th century; mounting 19th century

Medium

Steel, wood, copper-gold alloy (shakudō), gold, lacquer, baleen, rayskin (samé)

Culture

Japanese

Department

Arms and Armor

Credit line

Gift of Brayton Ives and W. T. Walters, 1891