Wakizashi (Sword and scabbard)

Unknown, Japanese, Japanese

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about 1854

Steel, wood, iron, sharkskin, silk, gold, lacquer, and bronze

Overall: 26 3/4 in. (68 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Reverend James Horace Pettee, Class of 1873

19.1.4100

Geography

Place Made: Musashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan, East Asia, Asia

Period

19th century

Object Name

Armament

Research Area

Asia

Not on view

Exhibition History

Critical Faculties: Teaching with the Hood's Collections, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 15-March 13, 2005.

Provenance

Collected by Reverend James Horace Pettee, (1851-1920), Class of 1873, Auburndale, Massachusetts, Congregational Missionary in Japan, 1899; given to present collection, 1919.

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