Subject: 侍 samurai warrior
Culture: Japanese
Setting: Tokugawa shogunate, Japan 17th-mid 19thc
Object: 乗馬鞭 jōbamuchi riding crop
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* Royal Armouries Museum > Oriental Gallery
"Riding crops (muchi)
These are very high quality versions of the ones in normal everyday use,
and formed part of the great presentation by the Tokugawa Shogun Iemochi
to Queen Victoria in 1860. Japanese, 19th century" ...
* Royal Armouries Museum > Oriental Gallery *
"Riding whip (muchi) Japanese, Edo period (1603-1867)
Of whalebone (baleen), coated with black lacquer sprinkled with
flecks of mother-of-pearl and inlaid with a spiral strip of silver.
The handle is of silver textured by punching." ...
