The Metropolitan Museum of Art

金魚子地秋草図金具合口拵・付銀刀 Blade and Mounting for a Dagger (<i>Tantō</i>)

宮田信清 Miyata Nobukiyo

mid–late 19th century

Attribution

Fittings and blade by 宮田信清 Miyata Nobukiyo Japanese, Kyōto 1817–1884 Edo (present-day Tokyo)

Medium

Steel, silver, copper, copper-gold alloy ( shakudō ), gold, ray skin ( same ), baleen, lacquer

Physical dimensions

L. 9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm); L. of blade 13 9/16 in. (34.5 cm); L. of cutting edge 9 7/16 in. (23.9 cm)

Credit line

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