Subject: samurai warrior
Culture: Muromachi Japanese
Setting: Onin War, Sengoku Jidai, Japan 1467-mid-16thc
Object: uchigatana sword
* Metropolitan Museum of Art > Stone Gallery of Arms and Armor
[above] "Blade for a Slung Sword (Tachi)
Steel
Inscribed by Sanjo Yoshinori of Kyoto
Muromachi period,
late 14th-early 15th century"
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