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Blade and Mounting for a Dagger (Tantō)

Hidetsugu

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A straight, narrow dagger blade with a pointed tip and a curved edge. The blade is metallic with a light-gray color at the top near the tip that gradates to darker-gray near the bottom, showing an etched signature. The bottom displays a darker metallic color. The background is black.

Artwork Details

Date
blade, 19th century; mounting 19th century
Medium
Steel, wood, copper-gold alloy (shakudō), gold, lacquer, baleen, rayskin (samé)
Culture
Japanese
Dimensions
351 × 624 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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