Subject: samurai warrior

Culture: Japanese

Setting: Edo period, Japan 17th-19thc

Object: 短刀 tantō dagger

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* Metropolitan Museum of Art > Stone Gallery of Arms and Armor [bottom]

"Mounting for a Tantō

Silver, lacquered wood, silk

Fittings inscribed by Hasaharu

Edo period, 19th century"

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* Metropolitan Museum of Art > Stone Gallery of Arms and Armor

"Mounting for a Tantō Gold, silver, copper, and silk; design of a peony blossom Inscribed by Katsura Mitsuharu

Taisho period, dated June 1922

This set of dagger mountings is one of the masterpieces of Katsura Kitsuharu (1871-1962), the last traditionallly trained sword mountings maker in Japan. In addition to its superb workmanship, the set is also important because it was commissioned as an exact copy of a set of dagger mountings of the late 12th to early 13th century, which was owned by the Aso Shrine (Kumamoto prefecture) and registered as a National Treasure. The original has been missing since the end of World War II."

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