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Blade and Mounting for a Short Sword (Wakizashi)
Unrecorded artistblade, 19th century; mounting 19th century
- Attribution
- Unrecorded artist
- Medium
- Steel, wood, lacquer, ray skin (samé), thread, copper-gold alloy (shakudō), gold, iron, brass
- Physical dimensions
- L. 22 in. (55.8 cm); L. of blade 17 3/8 in. (44.2 cm); L. of cutting edge 11 15/16 in. (30.3 cm); D. of curvature 1/16 in. (0.2 cm)
- Credit line
- Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935
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