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MFA # 11.111291

Sword and sheath

JapaneseNanbokuchô and Edo periods

mid 14th century and 19th century

Place of Creation: Bingo, Japan

Steel with hilt in white ray skin, wrapped with white thread (tsumami-maki); hilt ornaments (menuki), fittings (fuchi, kashira, kozuka, kogai, tsuba) in copper-gold alloy (shakudô) repousse and punched, with applied gold sheet; sheath in gold aventurine lacquer with "sprinkled" (makie) designs

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

for more information see:

MFA Online Collections Database

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