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Sword of the wakizashi type with mounting
Inscribed by: Mihara no jû Morimasa (Japanese, active mid 14th century)
Inscribed by: Takeshiba Toshiteru (Japanese, active Edo period)
Inscribed by: Takeshiba Toshiteru (Japanese, active Edo period)
Japanese
Nanbokuchô and Edo periods
mid 14th century and 19th century
Place of Creation: Bingo, Japan
Medium/Technique
Steel with hilt in white ray skin, wrapped with white thread (tsumami-maki); hilt ornaments (menuki), fittings (fuchi, kashira, kozuka, kôgai, tsuba) in copper-gold alloy (shakudô) repousse and punched, with applied gold sheet; sheath in gold aventurine lacquer with "sprinkled" (makie) designs
Dimensions
length: 75 cm (29 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.11291
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CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsArms and armor – Swords
Catalogue Raisonné
MFA Highlights: Arts of Japan (2008), p. 121
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)
NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.
NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.